Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Milestone ran away from the German school where his Russian parents had sent him, migrated to the U. S., got a job in a raincoat factory at $4 per week. Later he became handy man for a theatrical photographer, and learned more about photography in the U. S. Signal Corps during the War. The day before he was discharged he won $300 in the company craps game and while spending it on Broadway met a cinema producer who gave him a $20 job in his cutting room. He became cutting room editor, then wrote some scenarios, got into directing...
...Record hereby acknowledges its appreciation of such signal commendation...
General Railway Signal...
...Circus ballyhoo is grizzled, bushy-browed Dexter Fellowes, Ringling pressagent. For 37 years Dexter Fellowes has been getting publicity for tent shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...
When Mr. Gandhi should reach the sea, when he should defy the British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...