Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what we consider to be the normal process of our economic system." To bring his former clients up to par with his new ones, "if new jobs are to be provided, the national income must be increased." National income will not rise without Business confidence, and on this paramount point Mr. Hopkins made an admission never before heard so frankly from a New Dealer. Said he: "Among many businessmen there exists a widespread lack of confidence . . . a hard, stubborn fact...
Cafe-Society (Paramount). Within the last decade, a variety of influences, including Repeal, Depression, the servant problem and congenital hysteria, have caused one faction in Manhattan's insecure aristocracy of wealth to spend their evenings in public restaurants rather than their homes. As a group, this faction got itself labeled Cafe Society. Top chroniclers of Manhattan society are "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Maury Paul), $50,000-a-year oldtime smart-setter for the New York Journal and American, and Lucius Beebe who writes a weekly column for the New York Herald Tribune...
...Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art proudly displayed its latest acquisition: Dorothy Lamour's sarong, donated by Paramount to "stimulate public interest in the museum as a whole...
...third of a nation" (Paramount) is an adaptation of the Federal Theatre Project's most successful play (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). It was directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones) and produced in Astoria, L. I.'s Eastern Service Studios by Harold Orlob. Its purpose: to denounce bad housing...
...Mecca, Calif., Caroline Faber sued Paramount Pictures, Inc. for $50,000. Reason: when she accepted a manager's invitation to watch a Paramount company working on Her Jungle Love, a chimpanzee named Jiggs (since dead) embraced her, bit her backside...