Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Morgan Run local who was not thrown out of work. Billy had gone above ground some 20 years before and was rapidly climbing to the top of the Labor ladder with his old Morgan Run local card tucked in a pocket of his business suit. When Samuel Gompers died in 1924, William Green stepped up to the top, became president of the American Federation of Labor. Most of the members of his old local never dug coal again but they kept their local's charter by paying their dues regularly as they worked at other jobs...
Woman Chases Man (United Artists). Screenwriters Samuel & Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl) wrote a script and, after reading it, begged Producer Goldwyn to take their names off it, returned the money he had paid them. Director William Wyler, who had been given a vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after...
When Assistant Principal Samuel S. Jaffe of Brooklyn's Public School No. 150 wanted to say singer, hanger, longing, banging, clingingly, his tongue betrayed him. So New York's Board of Examiners in 1934 unanimously rejected his application for a principal's license. Last week Teacher Jaffe, still awaiting the result of an appeal to the city's Board of Superintendents, filed another appeal with State Commissioner of Education Frank Pierrepont Graves. Although statistically Teacher Jaffe has one chance in 30 of persuading Commissioner Graves to interfere, his action moved the Board to consider how many...
...University requesting them to report upon the issues raised by the University's action in respect to Messrs. J. R. Walsh and A. R. Sweezy, instructors in Economics. The memorandum was addressed to the following nine professors: E. Merrick Dodd, Jr., Felix Frankfurter, Elmer P. Kohler, Edmund M. Morgan, Samuel E. Morison, Kenneth B. Murdock, Ralph B. Perry, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Harlow Shapley...
...competitive season draws to a close, standings on the House Tennis Ladder appear to be fairly decisive. Following is the order of the present standings: Donald Barker '38, Dudley H. Bradlee '38, Samuel L. Feeder '37, John C. Wood '39, Robert H. Sibley, Jr. '38, and John F. Dyer...