Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depression, "Continued constructive policies promoting the economic recovery must be the paramount duty. . . . Confidence in the future...
...General Jubal Early, is expected to be the front office man at the desk now held by Secretary Theodore Joslin. He covered the Navy Department for the Associated Press when Mr. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary, trailed him on his 1920 vice-presidential campaign. An easy, likable gladhander, he served Paramount Publix as Washington contact man. His job will be to steer as many callers as possible away from the President...
Harry Hillman, the Dartmouth coach, who is secretary, is working on arrangements. The meeting probably will be held at the Paramount Hotel in New York. Farrell has appointed a committee of coaches, of which John Magee of Bowdoin is the chairman and H. A. Bruce, the secretary to aid Hillman with the arrangements. Farrell said that the committee intends to invite R. C. Hutchinson president of the University of Chicago to make the main address and that G. T. Kirby, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Intercollegiate Association, would be another speaker...
...Poppaea, to save Marcus from what she considers a misalliance, refuses to allow it. Mercia goes to the lions first. Marcus follows her-not, as in the original story, because he has been converted, but for reasons of gallantry, which Director De Mille considered more affecting. As rewritten by Paramount's Scenarists Sidney Birchman and Waldemar Young, The Sign of the Cross is a Roman holiday of semi-civilized sentiment which is likely to redeem the $600,000 it cost, validate Director De Mille's dictum that no religious cinema has ever failed. Typical shot: Christians...
John Daniel Hertz, who moved last year from Chicago where he was interested in theatres and taxicabs to Manhattan, where he serves as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee, was elected to the board of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, together with Lawyer Carl August de Gersdorff of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine 8 Wood. They succeeded Bernard Mannes Baruch and the late Paul Moritz Warburg...