Word: salaryless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign was billed as the first really cooperative venture in cinema history. Executive Chairman George J. Schaefer (United Artists) explained it as the same kind of campaign that gets people to eat more bread. Outside the industry it was conceded that if his salaryless committees made enough racket they might get enough new customers to pay their expenses. But no amount of racket would call off the Department of Justice's impending suit...
Their first play on Broadway together was Sweet Nell of Old Drury, a salaryless Actors Equity benefit. Actor Lunt recalls it as his wife's first part as a beauty, in the role of Lady Castlemaine, remembers that they spent all their ready cash on fake jewelry to make her look more fetching. The acclaim for the new stage beauty was led by Mr. Lunt's deaf mother, Mrs. Harriet Sederholm, whose untempered voice could be heard quite plainly from the audience asking her neighbor, "Isn't she a dream...
...prospects of federal intervention in the financial phase of city-supervised public school systems began to crystallize early this week when the school teacheres of Chicago, salaryless since last June, desperately clamored for federal relief through R.F.C. funds. President Roosevelt in accordance with his policy of federal relief and departmental reorganization promised speedy assistance through the national government even though it mean an invasion of a strictly local sphere of action. Mean-while the school children staged a demonstration designed to show the power of public opinion, an opinion which acting Mayor, Corr adamantly characterized as "Potently Communistic...