Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece of statesmanship it offended at once the proponents of the more forthright B2H2 Resolution (TIME, March 22). Beside it the mild "Mackinac Charter," adopted by the Republicans a month ago, seemed now monumentally grand. Minor Statesman Connally explained feebly: "The best possible . . . that could be secured. Unity and harmony are vital if the Senate is to pass a resolution by a substantial majority...
...Russian equipment from dismantled plants. The Russians were withdrawing their drilling and refining equipment from the Sinkiang oilfields. The Russian garrison at Hami was departing by truck, in small units. The Russians were removing their autos, spare tires, generators, household goods and furniture. Their Sovintorg had closed all its minor agencies and turned the buildings over to the Chinese Government...
...producers and get a couple of millions together. Schenck threw up his hands in the air and raved. I told him if he didn't get the others together we would close every theater in the country." The major studios eventually settled for $50,000 a year, the minor studios for $25,000 for the privilege of doing business...
...Hughes, 26, was a young man to keep an eye on. He worked his way through teachers' college, later got a job with Ada's radio station KADA. He wanted to write, collected the young writer's usual swatch of rejection slips. He knocked around in minor radio jobs in Colorado Springs and Oklahoma City, married an Oklahoma girl named Marjorie Higbie. At last he got the night editor's desk on the Ada News...
First released some ten years ago as a horror film with Lon Chaney displaying his acid-distorted profile, "Phantom of the Opera" has had its face lifted, this time the gruesome details being definitely in a minor role. The new technicolor production's efforts are centered on the operatic background and on a cleverly handled romance, rather than depending on sheer horror to draw, the flocks to the box-office. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable picture, thanks to well proportioned bits of music, color, comedy, horror, and yes, even romance...