Word: starter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July Congress authorized the Smith Committee to investigate the Wagner Act, to find out whether the Labor Board had been fair, to see what amendments, if any, were needed, and gave it $50,000 as a starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work...
...considered Playwright Howard "a great constructionist" and turned to him in his hour of need. After a brief total immersion in Gone With the Wind, Sidney Howard arrived in Hollywood in the spring of 1937. With Selznick's famed marked copy of Gone With the Wind as a starter, Selznick, Howard and George Cukor (to supply the director's angle) spent twelve hours of a series of hot summer days, hammering out G With the W Script No. i. When finished, it contained 30,000 words, would have required five and a half hours...
...still massing just across the frontier, with the Nazi press barraging The Netherlands for not fighting harder against Great Britain's sea blockade, and with a possible Nazi threat about airplanes hanging over Queen Wilhelmina's head (see p. 17), The Netherlands High Command stepped on the starter of its defense engines, set them idling alertly though still strictly in neutral...
Fran Lee is a certain starter at wingback over the ailing Joe Gardella. The tough-fibred Junior is still nursing some bumps and bruises received in the Tigers' lair and will be available for relief duty only. Joe Koufman and Mose Hallett haven't much chance to get into the ball game...
Captain Torbie Macdonald again participated in a full workout and appeared to be ready for some action against the Army. Spreyer, however, is a certain starter at tailback, and the rest of the backfield is unchanged. Hank Vander Eb and Fran Lee were at A team berths yesterday but only because Bill Coleman and Joe Gardella were not fully recovered from some Princeton bumps and bruises. George Heiden remained at the bucking post...