Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...About the year 1848 the Medical Association convened at Richmond, Va., and [Dr. Alban S. Payne*] attended as was his custom. One night . . . the [25 or 30] members were returning from the late session. . . . Upon reaching the foot of Capital Hill, the door of a well-known restaurant flew open, as the redoubtable Bill Patterson emerged therefrom. . . . A very Hercules in size and strength, [he] appeared more formidable than usual, having indulged heavily . . . and being in one of his worst moods...
...Next day, Senator James Byrnes of South Carolina hatched a handy little plan which even arch-isolationists were said to have approved and which the State Department immediately endorsed. "Within the next few days," said Senator Byrnes, the State Department would open negotiations for barter trade with Great Britain, Holland, and Belgium, swapping raw materials such as U. S. surplus cotton (TIME, April 10) to lay in "emergency stocks" of strategic materials (rubber, tin) in which those nations hold the world monopoly...
...week speed cost England dearly. Late one night, a few days after his return from Kut, where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took only...
Cinema, always the most open-handed U. S. industry, outdid itself in 1937. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. alone paid 240 salaries of $15,000 or more, and M. G. M. and its parent company, Loew's Inc., paid the two biggest salaries of all: $1,296,503 in salary and bonus to Production Executive Louis B. Mayer, $694,123 to Loew's Vice President J. Robert Rubin. Loew's President Nicholas M. Schenck got $489,602. Highest paid performers: Actress Greta Garbo, $472,499; Actor Fredric March (who deserted Hollywood for Broadway...
...same nine which trounced four Southern teams will face the Jumbos, as the latter open their season...