Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said President Roosevelt (on Federal aid for education) : "Our aid, for many reasons, financial and otherwise, must be confined to lifting the level at the bottom. . . . [On freedom] : When the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing universities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added burden is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter...
...train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must: 1) not try to see his wife; 2) refrain from toting a gun; 3) post $10,000 bail. Meanwhile, Countess Babs had made their two-year-old Son Lance a ward in Chancery, which will keep him under control of the Lord Chancellor until...
Last week the Railroad Commission brought forth a Solomonesque decision. Southern Pacific's Gate ferry to Marin County's Sausalito landing, paralleling the deficit-ridden Golden Gate Bridge, must cease operation by July 28. Its Bay ferry, flanking the money-making San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge, may continue to operate at its present rates. Reasons: the Sausalito Ferry, which was losing money at the rate of $200,000 annually, "should not be permitted to injure itself . . . for the purpose of diverting traffic from its competitor." The Bay ferry, economically justified (seven-month net operating profit, as of February...
...about $5,000,000 in its annual three-month season. In 1936, Actors Equity Association divided professional summer theatres into Classes A & B, which are the only summer theatres in which Equity members may perform. Class A companies, of which there were 35 last year, 62 this, must have a nucleus of six Equity members at $40-a-week minimum and have the exclusive right to produce old or new plays. Class B calls for the same number of Equity members, is restricted to old plays only. This year's silo circuit is scheduling more plays and stars than...
...only nine reached Broadway and three succeeded there. Most popular single item on this summer's barn-belt bills is Mark Reed's Yes, My Darling Daughter, scheduled for at least 100 performances at 25 theatres from Denver, Colo, to Whitefield, N. H. Next are Tovarich, Night Must Fall, Tonight at Eight-Thirty, Let Us Be Gay, Night of January 16 and French Without Tears, all Broadway successes. Other noteworthy plans include Ibsen's Brand, never before professionally performed in the U. S., at Litchneld, Conn.; a Booth Tarkington festival, supervised by Booth Tarkington and including Seventeen...