Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When anyone makes a hit in Hollywood, first recognition is to get his signature on a long-term contract. Last week such recognition came to one of Hollywood's biggest and newest names, 31-year-old James Roosevelt. After six months as vice president of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., Jimmy got from his bald, bombastic and highly pleased boss a new, two-year contract, enlarging his studio duties, providing a salary increase next year from...
...Bellingham (pop. 30,823), a turbulent town long torn by private feuds and political catfights, Newspaperman Sefrit is known as "Little Hearst." Charles Fisher, an educational progressive, for 16 years has been president of Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham, which he made one of the most esteemed teachers' colleges in the U. S. To kick Fisher out of his job became Sefrit's ambition. With other enemies of Fisher he formed a committee, which filed charges that the college seldom displayed the U. S. flag on the campus, had invited subversive speakers to talk...
About 250 feet long, five stories high, with two main wings parallel to the main exhibition building and a glass and marble fagade, the proposed Gallery is without frills except for a curving pool and sculpture court beside the main entrance. Its site will be a two-block plot of ground on the Mall directly-and dramatically-opposite Jack Pope's National Gallery, now in construction-a $9,000,000 pantheon with marble wings. Cost of the functional Smithsonian Gallery of Art (which Congress has not yet appropriated...
...rich Newark lady sent him $10.000 with which to acquire old Italian things, he saved the money and persuaded her to let him spend it on American paintings. The next year the Museum moved into a $750,000 building given by Department Storeman Louis Bamberger, held a long remembered exhibition of New Jersey leather products and processes...
...long been anxious to stop partners in brokerage firms from margin speculating. Last week the New York Stock Exchange issued a new regulation to satisfy SEC. It forbade general partners of member firms from trading on margin through their own or other member firms. (Like other investors, they can, of course, trade on borrowed money if they obtain it elsewhere.) Exempt from this rule were specialists and certain technical transactions. The Exchange warned partners that the brokerage accounts of their close relatives would be scanned to see that the spirit of the new rule was observed...