Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential audience was a triumph in itself, since in four and a half years of existence it had been generally ridiculed or ignored by the Administration. Yet its hand-picked membership includes many a New Deal friend, including Glassman John D. Biggers, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Investment Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Merchant Lincoln Filene, Mail Order Man Robert E. Wood. Only member absent last week was Shipman Kermit Roosevelt, son of the President's fifth cousin...
...theory David Dubinsky is one of C. I. O.'s "Big Three"-with John Lewis of the United Mine Workers and Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In practice there has been only a "Big Two.'' Suspicious of Mr. Dubinsky's continued friendliness with William Green and Matthew Woll of A. F. of L., Messrs. Lewis & Hillman simply ignored his counsel. Pushed in opposite directions by factions in his own union, torn between his high faith in the C. I. O. cause and his personal loyalty to A. F. of L. (he was the first...
...better melodrama than a sermon, Stop-Over assembles its characters by a neat device. On the night that Bartley Langthorne (Sidney Blackmer), a played-out romantic actor, returns to his small town mansion for a rest cure, Halloween pranksters plant a Tourists Accommodated sign in his front yard. Tourists pour in, but cannot pour out because the housekeeper's gangster husband (Arthur Byron) holds them prisoners with...
From profitable Post Office contracts, pneumatic tubes prospered until the War. Then Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson, President Wilson's man-Farley for eight years, persuaded his chief over a golf game to veto the $1,000,000 annual appropriation for ''letters shot through pipes"-Republican pipes. Not until 1922 during the Harding administration were Manhattan's tubes reopened...
With Christmas in the offing and the box office in mind, Twentieth Century-Fox decided that a gay musical would be just the thing, and thereupon collected everyone they could lay their hands on and turned them all over to Sidney Lanfield, who happens to be the second highest paid director in the business. Mr. Lanfield's production, "Love and Hisses," now at the Metropolitan, is one of those pictures everyone will like...