Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extended to the Grace Line, to Luckenbach, Dollar or Pan ama Pacific. Freight had to be carried by rail from San Francisco to Seattle and Portland. The Japanese-owned N. Y. K. Line, with Japanese crews, was permitted to navigate at will, but striking longshore men would not touch its cargoes. Least affected city was Los Angeles, which consequently enjoyed an unprecedented ship ping boom. Last week San Francisco's Mayor Angelo Rossi stepped in as peacemaker. In his office Joe Ryan sat down with ship owners and representatives of the Mari time Workers' Union, signed an agreement...
...Disney. Most active company releasing through? United Artists is Darryl Zanuck's lively year-old 20th Century. Toothy, excitable little Producer Zanuck plays much polo, squeaks at his teammates in the same shrill tones he uses in story conferences. He likes bombastic entertainment, pictures with high pitch. The Zanuck touch should improve Cardinal Richelieu with George Arliss; Jack London's Call of the Wild; Ronald Colman in Clive of India; The Mighty Barnum, with Wallace Beery in the title role. Samuel Goldwyn, who usually spends and sometimes makes more out of his pictures than any other producer in Hollywood, plans...
...marry the boss's daughter, and to be a snob. Acknowledging the award, Mr. Rogers said: "I want to say first of all a few words to my mother in Walla Walla. I got fouled in the second round and he refuses to give me a return bout." Another touch of humor which the reunioning classes have loft for reminiscence next year was Joseph Seabury's comment the other night to 1904 that he had been reading the report of his class and he found out that most of his classmates had written voluminously concerning their "life and litters...
...paper called The Fatherland during the War to counteract Allied- propaganda in the U. S. Of late he has been writing and speechmaking, "interpreting" the New Germany to his adopted land. When he heard his name mentioned at the committee hearing he loudly declared: "There is not the slightest touch of impropriety in the contract between Byoir & Associates and the German railroads nor in my connections with that distinguished firm. ... If it is right for the Russians to hire Mr. Ivy Lee, why is it wrong for the German railroads to employ Mr. Carl Byoir and Mr. Carl Dickey...
...story of rural farm life in Maine is a pleasant counterpart. "As The Earth Turns" features no distinguished actors or actresses but those taking the roles are convincing and well cast. Heroine of the film is Jean Muir whose pleasant optimism and charming personality give the picture a realistic touch. The story concerns the everyday life of farmers, their hopes, fears, and monotonous routine. The intricate situations brought about by having members of one family living in close proximity to one another are portrayed adequately and with some skill. Although the film is not starting nevertheless the atmosphere is more...