Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Western Union Telegraph Co. last week announced that it might have to fire 3,125 messenger boys. Luther Wallin, of Earle, Ark., prudently closed down his sawmills there and at Columbus, Miss. In low-wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 workers, hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal...
...members of the cast and turns in a creditable performance, although hampered by poor direction and a Swedish accent, possibly derived from too great admiration of Garbo in the Napoleonic film, "Conquest." Alvin Childress heads the Negro cast in the role of a former slave and the father of Miss Karam. His role is very sympathetic and not very exacting, facts which make him the outstanding figure of the drama. Little can be said for the other actors white or Negro, except that they appear clumsy on the stage and give unnatural emphasis to their lines, faults that will probably...
...daughter of vehemently anti-New Deal Jouett (Liberty League) Shouse working for WPA. Not on work relief, serious-looking Elizabeth Shouse, 26, was hired last month as an expert to supervise the work of 14 WPAsters repairing school books in the District of Columbia. Pay: $136 a month. Said Miss Shouse with obvious truth: "No political pull was involved...
...Miss Manton (RKO Radio). Screwball comedy and screwball murder mystery combined, more happily than usual, with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene and Frances Mercer...
Died. William Isaac Purvis, 66, who was hanged for murder in 1894, escaped death when his head slipped through the noose, was later pardoned; of heart disease; in Lumberton, Miss. Twenty-six years after his near-execution, when another man confessed to the murder for which Purvis was convicted, Mississippi voted Will Purvis a shamefaced $5,000 "for services rendered to the State...