Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last fortnight, an even dozen of the cinema industry's top line executives, representing all of Hollywood's eight major producing companies, gathered in the office of Tsar Will Hays for the most impressive powwow of cinema bigwigs in a decade. Present were: Barney Balaban (Paramount), Nate J. Blumberg (Universal), Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn (Columbia), Samuel Goldwyn, Maurice Silverstone (United Artists), Nicholas M. Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Sidney R. Kent, Joseph M. Schenck (Twentieth Century-Fox), Leo Spitz (RKO Radio), Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner (Warner Bros.), Will H. Hays...
Since Hollywood's eight major producing companies had only until November 1 to answer the U. S. Department of Justice indictment for monopolistic practices, ostensible purpose of the meeting was to discuss ways and means of meeting this and other major crises, such as restrictions on cinema distribution in Italy and Germany, labor troubles on the West Coast, conduct of the Motion Pictures' Greatest Year campaign. Actually, word leaked from Hollywood that the real purpose of the meeting was something else entirely: to consider ways and means of checking anti-Semitism in so far as it affects movie...
...Progressive Education was a tiny and, in many eyes, a crackpot movement quarantined in a handful of private schools. Today it covers much more territory. Now predominantly a public-school affair. Progressive Education has strongholds in the suburbs of greater New York. Chicago and Los Angeles, is transforming such major public school systems as those of Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Detroit. No U. S. school has completely escaped its influence...
...professional football season reached its halfway mark last week, Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football League, were out in front in the 1938 race-as expected. Major disappointment of the season was Plunger Art Rooney's Pittsburgh Pirates, who had won only two games, lost five...
Seven weeks ago the Pirates were rated one of the strongest teams in the League. Owner Rooney, who won some $200,000 on horses last year, had rounded up the most expensive collection of stars in major-league football. No. 1 star: Rhodes Scholar Byron (''Whizzer") White, at $15,000 for eleven games...