Word: moffitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indignant Mr. Lewis thereupon offered the play rights to WPA's Federal Theatre Project, which went ahead with plans to produce the play simultaneously in a score of cities all over the nation. It was agreed that Nobel Prizewinner Lewis and his collaborator, Paramount Writer John C. ("Jack") Moffitt, should divide royalties of $50 per week for each theatre in which the play was shown. After squabbles with his collaborator and with Federal Theatre Director Hallie Flanagan during which, according to rumor, Mr. Lewis was on the verge of withdrawing the play, a final version was arrived at. Sinclair...
...Fascism as making headway in 1936. Last week, with no such trend in sight, the time was billed in the programs as "Very Soon-or Never." The main outlines of the novel are preserved, but instead of trying to dramatize a patchwork of fragments from the book, Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup was a tough-fibred fighter for the Liberal...
...regents, heavily influenced by utility men. voted not to let "Radical" Meiklejohn speak to the students. Deeply chagrined were many liberals, including Art Collector Albert Bender. Last week Mr. Bender's name was on the list but so were names of such conservative stripe as: Banker James K. Moffitt, Paint Man Parmer Fuller. Director Wetmore Hodges of General Foods Corp. Others: Lawyer Albert Rosenshine, Architect Irving F. Morrow (Golden Gate Bridge), Banker-Author Jesse Lilienthal (Gambler's Wife), Socialite Robert Hooker. Dr. Thomas Addis, Ophthalmologist Hans Barkan, President Daniel Koshland of Juvenile Court and Poet Marie Welch, daughter...
...meteors, radio waves go askew. The meteors ionize and rustle the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, radio's sounding board around the earth. -Dr. A. Meldon Skellet, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Electric Clocks, run by 60-cycles-per-second powerhouse current, are sufficiently accurate to operate astronomical telescopes. Dr. George Wilber Moffitt is using such a clock at Yerkes Observatory. Dr. Heber Doust Curtis will put one in at the Michigan Observatory...