Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the taxpayer. Early in 1937 a famed authority on taxation, Columbia University's Roswell Magill, was made Under Secretary of the Treasury. Studies were promptly started. And then in a message to Congress last April President Roosevelt declared that there was "an immediate need for a careful survey of the present tax structure." One result of that call to action was the red-herring investigation of incorporated yachts during the battle over the Supreme Court and the subsequent plugging of a few yawning loopholes...
...thing that keeps men out of airplanes is fear. Another is their wives' fear. Last fortnight United Air Lines' West Coast manager, Stephen Augustus Stimp-son-who introduced stewardesses to the flying public-decided to try to do some-thing about wives' fear. A survey revealed that "36% of wives do not want their husbands to fly, primarily because they themselves have never flown; many have never visited an airport; most have never seen a plane newer than 1929's trimotored Ford." California papers carried United's "very special invitation to wives whose husbands like...
...impressionistic attempts. With considerate farsightedness the New York Museum of Modern Art has gathered together into what is perhaps the first film library all the old jewels from Sarah Bernhardt's "Queen Elizabeth" to Mickey Mouse. Here last year was formed the Harvard Film Society, which presented a survey of the development of the American cinema and contributed, incidentally, to the up-keep of the dusty reels in the Modern Art Muscum's library. So well supported and enjoyed was this presentation that the Society is offering a second program, entitled "The Film in Germany and France, 1896-1927." When...
Since 1932 the Motion Picture Herald, Domesday Book of the cinema industry, has made annual surveys to find out which cinema stars make most money for the box office. Heading the list for the first two years was the late, leather-lunged Marie Dressler. In 1934 the late Will Rogers succeeded her. In 1935 pampered Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, then 6 years old, took first place. In 1936, for the first time, the Herald polled not only the U. S. but the box offices of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Again Shirley Temple topped the list. Last month the Herald...
...years ago, under the auspices of the Belgian Government, a tall, rawboned cinema director, Armand Denis (Goona-Goona), and his wife, Leila Roosevelt, undertook a $150,000 expedition to the Belgian Congo. Purposes: to make a motion picture survey of certain parts of the country for Belgian Congo's National Park Institute; to take sound film material suitable for use in an African movie. Explorer Denis, his wife, cameramen, and Pooka, a cat (which survived sand storms and a fight with a leopard, only to be run over later on a quiet New England country road) pushed their...