Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Artists Corporation, owned by retired Stars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and Producers Samuel Goldwyn and Alexander Korda. A private corporation, United Artists keeps its business largely to itself, occasionally gloats in the trade press over large but unrevealed profits. Month ago the five owners met, split a modest melon...
Yale and Cornell, early pacers of the league, have recently fallen by the wayside. After a whirlwind start, Monro Jubitz, the Elis' sole pitcher, faltered under his heavy burden so that the Blue is a poor third with an even split in eight games. The weak hitting Big Red also bit the dust as the league opposition sharpened their batting eyes and has dropped from first place to fifth...
...Samuel Johnson. In these contests, although Laborites and Liberals have rejected the idea of a "Popular Front" to oppose Prime Minister Chamberlain, the two parties fortunately managed to put but one candidate in the field. Last week anti-Chamberlain factions bewailed the fact that two Opposition candidates had split the Aylesbury field, but a united front would have meant little change in the result. The Conservative Party has long had the Aylesbury constituency under control...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's campaign for reciprocal taxation of State and Federal salaries and bonds was given sharp impetus today when the Supreme Court, in two far-reaching decisions, broadened the Federal government's taxing powers. The decisions, reached by a split of the Court affirmed the right of the Federal government to impose income taxes upon employees of the port of New York Authority, a joint instrumentality of the States of New York and New Jersey, and affirmed the government's right to tax admissions to football games and other athletic contests sponsored by state universities...
...LaGuardia began to break the 17-year rule of Tammany Hall over the city's public schools. One February day in 1935 he filled a vacancy on the Board of Education with a squarejawed, tousle-headed young man named James Marshall. His very first day Jimmy Marshall split not only with the Tammanyites but with his Fusion colleague, supported a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 18. Before the month was out he was known as the most uncompromising member of the Board of Education...