Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stubbs will start the same team that faced Princeton, with no changes in any of the lines. Tonight's game should furnish the team an opportunity to show its power, as the revised lines have been playing together for more than a week. Saturday night the Harding, Pope, and Roberts line showed up very well...
...Senate Office Building in Washington began an investigation which seemed to have no particular scandal in mind: The subject was unemployment and the master of ceremonies was South Carolina's amiable Senator James F. Byrnes. Said he: "It is not the purpose of this committee to endeavor to show that either labor or capital deliberately brought about the present recession in business." As evidence of good intentions, Jimmy Byrnes pointed out that his committee had been appointed six months ago, before eco-nomic astrologers foresaw a major eclipse of prosperity...
Pins and Needles is the Labor Stage revue that opened in Manhattan as a week-end show, became such a success that it is now playing nightly to a packed house. Its amateur cast was recruited entirely from members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, a potent part of C. I. 0. Actors' Equity is a member of the rival A. F. of L. Last week A. F. of L.'s Equity claimed Pins and Needles' C. I. 0. amateurs as full-fledged, money-making actors, will bill them for dues ($6 to $18 annually...
...virtual retirement with no telephone or radio. But each winter they visit Washington, D. C., where Charles Beard sees his good friends Senators Norris and La Follette, Justice Brandeis, Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have so often done in the past-talk abstract principles while advocating legislation in the economic interest of their section or class. A few miles from the parental household in Connecticut the younger branch of the Beard historical menage-Daughter Miriam, her husband Dr. Vagts and their precocious eight-year...
...Nothing Sacred" stars Carole Lombard in Ben Hecht's story of the girl who faked radium poisoning so that a New York tabloid would rescue her from Vermont and show her how America lives. If the picture is not as hilarious as advance ballyhoo led everyone to believe, it is because Frederic March takes his part as the obituary editor (and Mr. Hecht's means of de-bunking New York) altogether too seriously...