Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent a sample to the Institut de Radium in Paris (once presided over by the late Marie Curie). Present price of radium is $25 per milligram, $25,000 per gram, $700,000 per ounce. Mrs. Bishop suspected for years that she had radium ore on her property, kept it quiet until her claim was cleared in the courts. Last week the excited little woman did not know just how extensive her deposit was, but she and her lawyers laid plans for a thorough survey and hoped to write a new chapter in the shifting course of world radium production...
...rudely shattered by a murderous charge of buckshot, fired through his study window at youthful Headmaster Elliott Speer (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934). For that shotgun murder no one has ever been brought to trial. But last week another gun and two old associates of Elliott Speer once more surrounded quiet Mount Hermon with an incongruous criminological atmosphere, provided it with a second mystery. In Superior Court at nearby Greenfield, Mount Hermon's retired Dean Thomas Edwin Elder, 55, was on trial for assault by gun on Mount Hermon's retired cashier Stephen Allen Norton...
...Montgomery (Guild president) and Franchot & Joan Tone, had little need for Equity support when it wrung a 90% closed shop from Hollywood producers. President Gillmore's consolation was a sketchy group of radio performers which Equity still kept under its thumb. I Last week the actors in this quiet little drama emerged from the wings to play their parts on Unionism's stage. What precipitated the show was the simple fact that entertainment had gone a long way since that August night in 1919. Stage performers were now a distinct minority in show business. Not only...
Sometime after one midnight last week Policeman Vernon Kelly paced his accustomed rounds on the quiet streets of Tallahassee, Fla. (pop. 12,000). At George Demetree's beer parlor he found the door suspiciously unlocked. Drawing his revolver and pushing inside, he flicked his flashlight, spotted a skinny, dark-brown Negro behind the counter, a taller yellow Negro nearby...
...SAGA OF AMERICAN SOCIETY- Dixon Wecter-Scribner ($4). Dispassionate, 504-page history of U. S. socialites since 1607. concluding with a quiet suggestion that, as "hostages for its own safety," the upper crust would do well to spend more money on living artists, cultivate the English tradition of public service, cease showing...