Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chained (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ends with a scene on an Argentine cattle ranch where Mike Bradley (Clark Gable), Yale 1926, is living with his divorcee bride, Diane (Joan Crawford). Diane opens a letter from the husband (Otto Kruger) she has just deserted and says to Mike: "Richard has gone to Maine for the summer." Mike Bradley's reply is intended to reveal him as a young man of generous and perceptive sentiments. "That's great," he says. "We'll send him some fancy beef for a barbecue...
...this symbolic device last week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy-set George Killius, known as one of the keenest buyers in the trade. In the largest collection of new furniture under one roof in the world they, and some...
Those who went to Washington on Labor questions last week went to see "Madam Queen." Her prestige had grown while others' had shrunk. She received President Green of the A. F. of L. and President Mike Tighe of the steel workers with their proposals for settling steel's labor troubles. She took the plan to the White House, explained it to the President, stood by while he interviewed the union men. To leave no doubt of her new importance the President issued a formal announcement: "I have referred the proposal to the Secretary of Labor for careful study...
Five taxicabs took all the Latorras to the Exposition grounds last week. Mrs. Latorra keeps two washing machines going for the laundry of the children who live in the 14-room house Mike Latorra built by himself. Said he last week: "If you keep your head up and everybody pulls together, why, the more the merrier and the better chance you've got to get along...
Said Mrs. Latorra: "Mike is a wonderful man. He works hard and he is cheerful with the kids...