Word: pettijohn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who turned up to talk Politics were more numerous. They included a Democratic Congressman from Maine, where the election is only three weeks off, a Republican Senator from North Dakota, Dr. Stanley High, who plans to spend $100,000 getting "Good Neighborly" preachers to vote for Roosevelt. Charles Pettijohn of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America dropped by to tell the President that his popularity, as gauged by audience response to newsreels, was once more on the upgrade. New Dealish James Cromwell brought his new wife, the onetime Doris Duke, to a Hyde Park lunch with the Roosevelts...
Applying for a pistol permit, Lawyer Charles Clyde Pettijohn, general counsel of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, town councilman of Harrison, N. Y., gave as character references Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Will Hays, J. Edgar Hoover and George William Cardinal Mundelein, got the permit...
...campaign, the President summoned to his mother's house last week some of his ablest advisers. Among those to pull up chairs in the Presidential study at Hyde Park were Postmaster General Farley, Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, Publisher Julius David Stern of Philadelphia, and Charles C. Pettijohn. the cinema lawyer who last year directed California's Stop-Sinclair movement...
...Tsar Will Hays a "window-dresser" and "office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches. In November 1931 The Churchman editorialized as follows: "Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Gabriel Hess, Charles C. Pettijohn and numbers of other individuals and film-producers have been indicted in the Province of Ontario for conspiring to prevent competition in that portion of Canada. This is a criminal prosecution, the results of which can only be moral, as the gentlemen are not likely to place themselves within reach...
...villainous Richard Murgatroyd, alias Handsome Harry, is foiled in his wicked designs on the farmer's daughter by the staunch courage of noble Jack Dalton, a son of the soil, beneath whose flannel shirt beats an honest heart. The old homestead is saved, the dastardly murderer of Alphonso Pettijohn is handcuffed by detective Hawkshaw in the nick of time, pure Nell and honest Jack clasp each other in a tender embrace, and an audience worn out with hissing the villain and cheering the hero leaves the Peabody Playhouse mulling over the pleasant taste of the nineties left by the Stagers...