Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Boss Petrillo won complete victory in the boycott he has enforced against new recordings-despite an anti-trust suit, pleas by OWI Director Elmer Davis and a Senate investigation-for 14 months. The "dough" was royalties ranging from ¼? to 5?, a tribute which Decca will pay into the union treasury for every record it sells. If all record companies sign, the union will receive about $500,000 a year, perhaps as much as $3,000,000 a year when the wartime shellac shortage ends...
...England, Labor Minister Ernest Bevin reportedly told an audience of 6,000 war-worker women, after an off-the-record speech, "Don't say anything to the press. I don't trust the press." The National Union of Journalists angrily demanded a retraction...
...bearded, ebullient Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who in the last ten years has espoused pacifism, Mosleyism, polygamy, socialism, appeasement, Christianity, spiritualism, hedonism. He has also written some earnest, reputable books of philosophy, become one of the most popular members of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s "Brains Trust" (Britain's Information Please...
Then the Hopes migrated to Cleveland. There Bob ran around with a bunch of little toughies, filching apples from pushcarts, racking pool balls, selling papers (legend has it that John D. Rockefeller Sr. once rebuked Newsboy Hope for offering to trust him). He was also a choirboy until "in the middle of a lovely solo, my voice changed...
...opposite a woman with no more polish than Lorraine Day is the biggest mistake of the picture, unless it was the initial decision to produce the movie. It just goes to prove that you can't toss a good comedian like Cary Grant into any rickety old vehicle and trust him to make it go. Lorraine Day is still the sweet-simple young things she was in the Kildare serials and just isn't up to her part throughout the pictures...