Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood idea man had visited Manhattan's federal courthouse last week, he could have walked away with all the makings of a grade B movie script, complete with a theatrical producer, a dark-haired charmer trying to entice information out of him, and a sizable batch (89 pages) of ready-made dialogue. The script didn't quite turn out according to plan...
Trunks Extra? In Washington, the ICC recommended that the ferry line between Weehawken, N.J. and Manhattan help meet higher operating costs by increasing the fare for uncrated elephants from...
Leggy, almond-eyed Valerie Bettis, 28, discovered as a gaminish youngster that "when I was dancing, I knew who I was." She studied in Manhattan with Hanya Holm, and in 1941 gave a debut recital. Her The Desperate Heart won big notices in 1943. But it was not until Valerie stopped the show in Bea Lillie's Inside U.S.A. last year with her tawny "Tiger Lily" dance that anyone but modern dance devotees was very sure...
Republic Steel Corp.'s thin-lipped President Charles M. White thinks there are better ways to settle labor disputes than through a fact-finding board appointed by the President. In Manhattan's federal courthouse one day last week he told the board...
When Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin asked that the Labor Department be given power to sue employers for wages, Congress turned him down. In Manhattan last week, the circuit court of appeals ruled that the Wage & Hour Division of the Labor Department could sue to collect overtime even though the workers involved had not filed suits. Ruled Judge Learned Hand: "The [Labor Department] ought to have the power...Many deserving claims might otherwise be lost...