Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even better illustration of this belief is Wellman's own career. Respectably reared in quiet Brookline, Mass., he left high school to sell chocolates and woolen goods, failing miserably at both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when...
...National Defense Power Committee was appointed by Franklin Roosevelt in September when the recent European crisis was getting hot. Headed by Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, it includes such New Deal dynamos as Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. Last week's announcement, result of several quiet conferences between utility magnates and the Administration powers, was seen in various lights by the utility men. One said: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave it to them." Chairman Floyd Carlisle of Consolidated Edison Co. would only say: "We are delighted to make the studies with the Government.'' Mr. Groesbeck...
...make it appear to be news, a quiet meeting of 300 persons, a few of them students at the University, was transformed into a raging mob of undergraduates, separated from their money by my eloquence and the lure of pretty girls...
...Carver Street just off Boylston, a complete Smorgasbord served in a quiet and different atmosphere...
...beautiful chorines, "Sis" from Texas and "Pack" from Pittsburgh, dropped into the quiet sanctity of Cambridge yesterday and marvelled at its undisturbed peace...