Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week marked what may well be a turning point in the campaign of Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) to enforce the Equity closed shop in Hollywood (TIME, July 8, Aug. 5). Six cinemactors, with Equity approval, met with delegates of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, hitherto haughtily oblivious of Equity demands. The actors: Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Edmund Lowe, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Ralph Forbes. Though the meetings were secret, observers were cheered by signs of arbitration after weeks of feverish, noisy invective...
...Companion was explained last week by its publisher. Donald B. Snyder: "We got a good price. The consolidation is particularly effective because the juvenile has a thin market and it was inevitable that one of the big two should take over the other. It so happened that American Boy met our price...
...winds of liberalism in the Presbyterian Church last week met gusty resistance. When the Presbyterian General Assembly recently vested control of Princeton Theological Seminary in a single body (instead of dual control by trustees and directors) it virtually assured the ascendance of Modernism in the oldest, richest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. (TIME, June 3 et seq.'). Greatly distressed were potent Fundamentalists, who have long fought to keep Princeton one of the few remaining strongholds of ancient evangelical doctrine. Last week the Princeton Fundamentalists met in Philadelphia, made plans to secede from Princeton, to found a new seminary...
...boarding-school went Gabriel, into the army. Jailed by his father, shot at by his profligate mother, seduced by his sister, married by a good girl, Gabriel's troubles seemed only to begin when he met Sophie de Monnier. The 21-year-old wife of a rich but devout sexagenarian, Sophie had large, black, red-rimmed eyes. When Gabriel eloped with her, his head was declared forfeit, for rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate...
...Youth rose up invincible when John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, new British doubles champions, met Cochet & Borotra. Winning 6-1, 8-6, 6-4, they stood forth as the most smooth-running doubles team in the game today...