Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy (where he cracked up so many planes he was known as "the Austrian ace"), and running Paramount's Eastern studio in the 19203. Three years ago, he astounded the industry by announcing that he and Mussolini planned to build a "cinema city" on the outskirts of Rome, put Italy into cinema production on a grand scale. When the Hitler-Mussolini axis was formed, the Mussolini-Wanger axis broke. Wanger went on record as Hollywood's No. i anti-dictator producer by making Blockade and is now leading a move to revise Hollywood's famed Production Code...
...catch with the bare hands and horses and tigers disappeared, schools nevertheless went on teaching the old fundamentals for their cultural value. Eventually progressives, insisting that "to learn tiger-scaring, it is quite helpful to have a real tiger," revolted against the traditional curriculum, found two surviving old tigers, put them in a cage, had children wave torches in their faces, started a Real-Tiger School...
Last week the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan put on exhibition the results of an interesting challenge. The challenge was made to architects last autumn and its terms were substantially these: let's see you design an intelligent theatre, if possible. The challenger was a hopeful organization entitled the American Na tional Theatre and Academy, whose advisory board includes such theatre folk as Katharine Cornell, Maxwell Anderson, the Lunts, Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones. Because these people believe that future health and expansion for the U. S. theatre lies in the hinterland rather than in hectic Manhattan...
...Weekly), had passed three consecutive quarterly dividends on its 7% Class A (preferred) stock. If it passed the fourth, due March 15, control of the most valuable Hearst newspaper properties could go out of the hands of Hearstmen and into the hands of some 50,000 small stockholders, who put up $50,000,000 for what Mr. Hearst assured them nine years ago was "an ultra-conservative investment." With dividends $2,625,000 in arrears and $875,000 due this time, and with a committee representing 30,000 shares waiting to pounce on the company, the directors needed somebody...
...soon after the turn of the century that it could do so only on the I. R. T.'s and B. R. T.'s terms, since no bankers would fight their monopoly. After five years of dickering I. R. T.'s then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything but my shirt." To enable Mr. Shonts to dress again...