Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The authors (Gene Towne, Graham Baker, Gene Fowler), borrowing the Connecticut Yankee formula, have brought it aptly up to date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company...
Actually the rules were not changed. The credentials committee simply stalled. Efforts to spur the committee to action were futile, though so strenuous at one time that Bill Green broke his gavel pounding for order. Apparently the plan was to stall until Typographer Howard departed for the gathering of C...
First, the table lamps could be removed and adequate overhead lights substituted. Secondly, the opaque glass in the skylights might be removed and more transparent glass substituted. The intensity of the light during the day would be greatly increased. Thirdly, the book cases might be painted white and the walls...
As the Government's policeman of Wall Street, SEC has lately mellowed enough to be regarded with complacence, almost respect, even by brokers. But fortnight ago Bill Douglas actually was promoted to SEChairman. Last week, therefore, when he returned from vacation on Cape Cod to take over his new...
The country is full of preparations for war; troop trains are busy carrying men to the ports for embarkation to Shanghai and the northern war zone, with the railway congestion particularly noticeable in the vicinity of Kobe and Osaka. Long trains of supplies, with some flat cars disclosing the sinister...