Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 1:49 sec. of the fourth round, Referee Arthur Donovan untangled Galento from the ropes, awarded a technical knock out to Louis and dragged Galento to his corner. When he came to and had his fat face put back together with 23 stitches, the gallant little tavern-keeper set some kind of world's record by being just as unafraid of Louis as when he went into the ring. He still thought he could beat him. "I just got a little careless," he explained through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even...
...September 19 California will put into effect its "Jackie Coogan Law,'' by which the courts will set aside half the cinema earnings of minors in a trust fund protected from their parents. Approved last week by Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson was the first contract written to conform with the act, between Universal Pictures and 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Cinemactress Durbin's earnings in the next five years will total...
...church's personnel, Pastor Niemoller spoke up in sharp, open opposition. Eight months after his arrest, he was tried, on such charges as "making agitatory addresses," found guilty, given a suspended sentence. But Adolf Hitler had said: "It is Niemoller or I." The pastor was rearrested, put in Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
...statistics on radio as an employer revealed radio as the highest-paying industry in the U. S. Of its 1938 payroll of $45,663,757, some 18,300 full-time employes averaged $45.20 a week, 4,000-odd part timers, $23.55 weekly. This put radio, by comparison with 1937, a cut above cinema ($41.33), well above Wall Street ($34.47), way above manufacturing...
Last week U. S. Drama, Inc. put on Irish night over MBS, featuring William J. Bailey, the Singing Fireman, rendering Rose of Tralee, and famed ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, the unhappy Democratic warrior, who pitched right into Communism...