Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Bob Wood was sympathetic with the New Deal. He voted for Roose velt twice, approved AAA, SEC, Social Security, many another reform. But he began to part company with the New Deal. He gagged at the Third Term. He gagged at Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. When America First gave him something political to work for, he threw himself into it with a will...
...Belmont Park last week, New York race-goers saw two records broken.. In the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Louis Tufano's three-year-old Market Wise, who raced last fall as a cheap selling plater, outran mighty Whirlaway, skimmed two miles in 3 min., 20 4/5 sec. to break by a full second the North American record set by the great Exterminator in 1920. Four days earlier, in a match between two of the outstanding two-year-olds of the year, Mrs. Albert Sabath's Alsab, in beating Ben Whitaker's Requested, ran 6½ furlongs...
...Hollywood studio announced that the kissing record set by George Brent and Ann Sheridan (56.2 seconds) had finally been broken by Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman (3 min. 5 sec.). A citizens' committee of Lilypons, Md., appointed Lily Pons honorary Mayor. (The town was named in honor of the opera singer nine years ago.) "I'm never going to get behind that phony mustache again," declared Julius ("Groucho") Marx. "The mustache is out for good." The New York Times published an editorial in protest...
...Harvard-Hopkins-Cambridge graduate is pretty and occasionally (three times to be exact) is amusing. Fred MacMurray and his two he-man buddies after razzing and then getting to like Flynn, M.D., all die in crashes. We hoped that Flynn did, too, but didn't wait to sec...
...Treasury list was incomplete: absent were the big pay checks of M.G.M., Universal Corp. and Columbia Pictures. But SEC records showed that M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer got $697,048, which almost certainly made him 1939's best-salaried employe...