Word: miller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after its opening, Producer Gilbert Miller attended a performance. When the final curtain descended he proceeded not to the street but to the producer's office. It was 3 a.m. when he finally left. It had taken him all that time to negotiate successfully for the U.S. rights. He at once placed an English company in rehearsal, played it a week in a theatre in London, sailed with it for the U.S. The company rehearsed all the way over on the boat. The players reached New York early last week, rested a day, made their debut in Great...
...rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago−to be held in Detroit, June 6. The Messrs. Dempsey and Fugazy say they will build themselves a coliseum comparable to Madison Square Garden within a year...
...seemed last week as though a mid-western cyclone had swooped upon the normally quiet campus of the University of Missouri. President Stratton Duluth Brooks stormed about "a fool trick without authorization of administrative forces." Irate alumni demanded student, even faculty expulsions. In St. Louis, Representative Robert F. Miller demanded a thorough investigation...
...Miller, tried with onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Daugherty for defrauding the Government, was convicted and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and a fine of $5,000. On Daugherty, one juror disagreed and he was discharged. Miller began to serve his term last April. He behaved himself well in jail and was to have been discharged next July. Last December he was recommended for parole. In spite of the custom of releasing convicts at Christmas time. Attorney General Sargent did not see fit to sign the parole then. But he did not forget. He bided his time, until his last...
...implicitly concurred in the belief that the "pocket veto" is efficacious at the end of any session of a Congress include Jackson, Tyler, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge. The practice was upheld in the opinions of Attorney Generals Devens and Miller...