Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...started for profit has long obsessed a group of Senators including Washington's Homer Bone, North Dakota's Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, Missouri's Bennett Clark, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. "To keep democracy alive, and for other purposes," these gentlemen and 46 cosigners last week outdid themselves by sponsoring a war-tax measure written by little, pinch-faced Senator Bone...
...show in the prize ring. Adolf Hitler has made only one error in timing-when he started a punch at Austria in 1934 and was blocked by Benito Mussolini. The speed, precision and preparation with which Adolf Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid fire of a machine gun. His culminating campaign in Czecho-Slovakia lasted exactly three days...
...strange case of the late Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, prodigiously prolific writer of mystery yarns, legend outdid the truth only a little. Legend said that he was merely the figurehead of a big writing syndicate. Witnesses swore it was true, however flabbergasting, that he dictated a full-length thriller in 60 hours, 1,200-word articles in 20 minutes, a hit play in 14 hours. To complicate the picture, he was also called a lazy man, who squandered many an hour at poker, many an afternoon at the race track...
...could have been less pleasing to the dictatorships than the report last week that President Roosevelt had told a Senate Committee that the U. S. defense frontiers were in France (see p. 12). The French and British press shouted with joy, while the totalitarian press of Germany and Italy outdid all previous efforts in denouncing Mr. Roosevelt and all he stood...