Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selzniclc's Headache. Seventy-five years after the defeated Confederates trudged out of Atlanta singing Maryland, My Maryland, Producer David 0. Selznick received one of the most ecstatic business telegrams ever sent. It was sent by Kay (for Katherine) Brown, Eastern Story Editor of Selznick International Pictures. She said: "We have just airmailed detailed synopsis of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, also copy of book. ... I beg, urge, coax and plead with you to read this at once. I know that after you read the book you will drop everything...
...views: the 1927 journeymen stonecutters' case, the 1930 Baltimore Street Railway case. In the first the conservatives granted employers an injunction against union stonecutters who refused to work on nonunion stone shipped into their territory. In the second, conservatives ruled that a fare fixed by the State of Maryland, which permitted the railway a 6¼% rate of return, was "confiscatory," that the company was entitled to a return of 7½% or more...
...Democratic National Committee. Another full time job he held down (at $15,000) was as trustee of the bankrupt Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway. He was also a co-receiver for Chicago Railways Co. and director of half-a-dozen big U. S. corporations, among them the Maryland Casualty Co., then in debt to the RFC to the tune of $17,500,000. The late great Republican Senator James Couzens moved to investigate the ethics of Mr. Cummings' $90,000-plus annual salary intake from RFC babies while he was Treasurer of the Democratic party. But the Democrats...
...Boston Record and the Boston American all this fall have been head being authoritative statements that Harvard will resign and return to Maryland. Economically it was Austin Lake, veteran Boston American Columnist, who has head linesman in the stadium today. Posters along Soldiers Field fluttered to the chill Allston winds the fact that a Boston paper will publish tomorrow an article by Lake on how college football players are doped before big names...
Singing "Challedon, my Challedon" (tune of Maryland, My Maryland) 25,000 hoarse-voiced fans saluted the Horse of the Year, a worthy successor to Seabiscuit and War Admiral. It looked as if young Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt had chirped a mouthful...