Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifty million males can't be wronged like the way you did in your magazine July 19. I mean when you called Mae West the "public passion of 50 million movie-going males...
...these generals put all their troops into the campaign Chiang Kai-shek can count on nearly a million men. So far Japan apparently expects to oppose all this with just one general. Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, commandant at Tientsin (see cut), who was not only fighting Japan's war last week but busying himself with the details of setting up another Japanese puppet state in the Peiping North China area. During all this Premier Fumimaro Konoye took to his bed in Tokyo, ostensibly overcome by the heat...
...Habitual million-dollar gates died with Tex Rickard and the Coolidge boom. But Rickard, for all his promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued...
...wraps, Miss Hovick stalks innocuously through You Can't Have Everything without appreciably altering its merits as a smart and tuneful musical, cut from the same unpretentious pattern as its predecessors in Producer Darryl Zanuck's recent musical cycle (Sing Baby Sing, Pigskin Parade, One in a Million, On the Avenue, Wake Up and Live...
Chairman Brewster wants to name a Queen of the Ball whom he can also use as a model for Townsend Silver advertising, thus assuring a million dollar account for his insolvent agency. When stuffy young Alan Townsend (Richard Arlen) tells him that he wants a socialite for both jobs, the indefatigable Brewster finds one in the person of Townsend's fiancee Cynthia (Gail Patrick). But meantime Brewster's professional model fiancée Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino) has pursued young Townsend to Miami, convinced him, apparently by drinking tea with an arched ringer, that she is an eligible...