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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richter '40 and John Murray are two possibilities for the 135-lb. assignment. Richter was undefeated in his Freshman year and earned a position last season on the Varsity. Ed Schoenberg '40 may give Ach a hard fight to retain his post in the 126-lb. class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTEEN TURN OUT FOR WRESTLING PRACTICE | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

Room Service (RKO) is John Murray's and Allen Boretz's outrageously funny farce about the exigencies of show business on a shoe string, redesigned as a vehicle for Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx. Groucho is Producer Gordon Miller, whose schemes for wheedling board & lodging out of a weak-spined hotel manager to whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...battle heat, Scotsman Murray's burred goddams can be softly terrible, Lithuanian-born Sidney Hillman's dat-for-that accent becomes a cracking sputter. Murray & Hillman burred and sputtered to good effect. Several of Martin's dozen boardmen began to waver. One night Messrs. Murray & Hillman added up their gains, convinced Homer Martin that he might as well convene his board and get it over. He capitulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Martin's Snuffles | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

President Martin was allowed to keep his face and office. Messrs. Murray & Hillman were empowered: 1) to "review" the expulsions, decide whether they still think the ousted officers should be reinstated; 2) with Homer Martin and one other board member, to settle future disputes. This arrangement is to continue until next year, when at the union's biennial convention Messrs, Frankensteen, Mortimer, et al. will have a chance to complete the demolition of Homer Martin. C. I. O. having thus taken U. A. W. out of Homer Martin's hands, Murray & Hillman graciously announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Martin's Snuffles | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...sequel to the general misunderstanding about what time it was Sunday morning afforded tardy Freshmen an opportunity to arrive late for breakfast. As late as 9:30 o'clock yawning Yardlings accosted Miss Murray, dining hall impressario, with demands for breakfast, pleading that they did not know there had been no change in time. They breakfasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCLAMATION | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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