Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia Pictures line-up last week was Walter Wanger who resigned as general production manager of Paramount last June. It was his third resignation. This time the resignation stuck and he became vice president of Columbia (Mickey Mouse distributors). Harry Cohn assumed the presidency after buying the stock interest of Joseph Brandt, former president and his associate for 15 years...
...Stuck in the mud of the last U. S. Depression (1921), Business was pulled out by a great acceleration of the automobile industry, teamed with a building boom long deferred by the War. The automobile industry then looked back a decade and smiled at its gangling youth. It looked ahead a decade with confidence and composure. Both were justified...
...this promise General Chiang stuck, disregarded all appeals from Nanking to come back and make some sort of compromise with the Cantonese statesmen who had forced him out (TIME, Dec. 28). They in Nanking last week dominated one of the most savagely bickering sessions of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party or Kuomintang ever held. Aloof like General Chiang stood his brother-in-law, Dr. T. V. Soong, China's No. 1 banker and reputedly the only Chinese who as Finance Minister can get enough money together to keep a Chinese Government going. In Shanghai last week...
...upstairs to a bathroom on the third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused her extreme pain. Solution: the physician called for carpenter's tools, removed sill & lady, soaked her loose with gasoline...
China has lost every war she has tried to fight since the 18th Century. But Chinese General Ma Chan-shan, who personally declared war on Japan fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 16), still stuck to his guns and his trenches last week, became a towering hero to the Chinese people. From Newark, N. J. for example the Chinese Merchants' Association cabled $2,000 to Hero Ma. To report the heroic struggles of General Ma, star correspondents rushed by plane and train towards his remote war base, Tsitsihar...