Word: sol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peck's Bad Boy (Sol Lesser). Sure of pleasing the Legion of Decency and that large portion of the cinema public which considers Jackie Cooper's pout irresistibly affecting, Producer Sol Lesser quite properly thought it unnecessary to make this picture a faithful transcription of its original. Admirers of George Wilbur Peck's 1883 classic may therefore be disappointed to find it projected upon the screen as an up-to-date tearjerker, in which young Bill Peck experiences every childhood misery known to Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel...
...producers from raiding their rivals' star performers with offers of higher salaries. When cinema companies began going bankrupt, Hollywood ceased to brag of its wage scale and cinema employes began to take unusual pains to get their Federal income tax returns just right. Last week, NRA Division Administrator Sol Arian Rosenblatt, able Broadway lawyer, made his long-awaited report on stars and salaries...
...boarding house. The shooting of Horst Wessel by four Communists occurred in 1930 before Hitler's rise to power and the confessed No. 1 shooter died in jail, but Nazis, bent on winding up the case in their own way, insisted on trying last week three more Communists-Sol Epstein, Hans Ziegler and Peter Stoll (TIME, May 14). "I wouldn't kill a fly!" cried Defendant Stoll. "Oh, no!" snorted the judge. "But you could stand guard while a man was being murdered!" Convicted of standing outside Frau Salm's boarding house, Herr Stoll was sentenced...
General Johnson, too, has a number of Jews in his Recovery army, foremost of whom are Sol Arian Rosenblatt, Administrator of Division V (Amusements & Transportation), and Alexander Sachs, Chief of the Division of Research & Planning. Head of NRA's Labor Advisory Board is Dr. Leo Wolman (prolabor but not a radical), who also sits on the National Labor Board and heads the Automobile Labor Board. And finally there is Rose Schneiderman (Labor Advisory Board) who last January went to Puerto Rico to iron out its labor difficulties and, more recently, has threatened to sue Dr. Wirt for calling...
...Even in Germany they were allowed to attend special Purim plays, advertise the feast in street cars. In Manhattan Mayor LaGuardia was given a basket of Purim figs, dates and wines sent by German refugees in Palestine. A message from President Roosevelt to the Jews was read by Congressman Sol Bloom on a nationwide broadcast...