Word: sam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loewe & Co., because of the boycott, charged 240 Danbury hatters with conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act, won a verdict for triple damages. Lest the defendant hatters lose their homes and savings, A. F. of L.'s Sam Gompers asked all Federationists to chip in an hour's pay, and eventually settled the judgment for $251,000 including damages...
...Married. Sam Henry Harris, 67, Manhattan theatrical producer (The American Way); and Kathleen Nolan Draguseanu ("China") Watson, 38, one of the first U. S. newspaper camerawomen, sister of Cinemactor George Brent; both for the third time; in Germantown...
...possessed a degree of control out of all proportion to Texas' importance in the Union. Today Texans are chairmen of the House committees on Agriculture (Marvin Jones), Elections No. 1 (West), Judiciary (Sumners), Public Buildings & Grounds (Lanham), Rivers & Harbors (Mansfield), Un-American Activities (Dies), to say nothing of Sam Rayburn being Majority Floor Leader. In the Senate, Morris Sheppard (who outranks John Garner by a half-year in length of uninterrupted Congressional tenure) heads the committees on Commerce, Military Affairs and (to the New Deal's recent embarrassment) Campaign Expenditures. Senator Tom Connally has Public Buildings & Grounds...
...Prompted by a letter to Tsar Will Hays from U. S. Assistant Secretary of State George S. Messersmith, Producer Sam Goldwyn announced that he had canceled plans to make Thirteen Go Flying, based on last January's crash of the British transport plane, Cavalier...
...Meredith in the 440, and Bill Young, John Dane, Henry Stewart, and Bob Brundage in the half. Brundage, a recent convert to the 880, leaves the broad-jump badly weakened. Leaders in a large group of milers and two-milers are Bob Jay, Charlie Robbins, Fred Bradley, Sam Worthen, Dan Jones, Tom McElligott, Wally Fenn, and John Sopka...