Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willie Bioff took Hollywood into camp four years ago, when he arrived as the representative of the A. F. of L. stagehands' potent President George Browne (TIME, Aug. 21). Known and printed was Willie Bioff's record as a Chicago hoodlum, his rise as George Browne's bodyguard and mainstay. Now Willie Bioff hobnobs with a Hollywood plutocrat. His dealings with Producer Joe Schenck were the subject of a court investigation last May, are under scrutiny of the U. S. Department of Justice. Said Mr. Schenck last week, replying to Willie Bioff's talk about...
...Office-holding Washingtonians began to receive their annual invitations to the Jackson Day dinner, set for next Jan. 8, grumbled their usual grumbles at the price ($100), but decided to be there in case Guest-of-Honor Franklin Roosevelt took that occasion for a third-term pronouncement...
...competitors and winner of the men's divisions: John Miller, of California, who took time off from punching cows to win a three-day trip to New York City by plane. He crocheted a bedspread...
...appearances indicated that now that Finland's lakes were frozen solid enough to support Army movements, Dictator Joseph Stalin meant to have a Finnish war-unless he was playing a gigantic game of bluff to the very end. Whether bluffing or not, the Finns took no chances. They closed most of the channels leading into the port of Helsinki preparatory to mining, and the little Army on the Karelian Isthmus braced itself against an increasingly probable attack...
...Freshmen took their first step toward future stardom by winning the weekly rhumba contest at the Zero Hereford Club Wednesday night. Braving a large crowd of contestants, the two Yardlings. Robert W. Lerner and Winslow B. Ayer, and their escorts hit the groove in that old Cuban...