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...couple of champions attending the meet, from the Moses Brown School of Providence, are Marshall Kingsbury, holder of the Harvard schoolboy cross country record and the 2 mile record at the Brown interscholastic meet, and George Weaver, high jump champion of Rhode Island, who has done 5 feet 11 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOLS TO BATTLE IN STADIUM MEET | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

...reported : "The whole trouble has been brought about by putting more work on the employes than they can do. . . . In the 'stretch-out' system it is the employe who does the stretching out. . . . The strike is in no sense a rebellion against improved textile machinery." One weaver, for example, the committee found, had operated 24 looms for $18.91 a week. He was given 114 machines to tend and his pay raised to $23 a week. He struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Southern Stirrings | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...those colleges where all the girls are good-looking, talk musical comedy English, make love instead of study, and wear clothes that must have cost their parents a pretty penny, Clara Bow falls in love with a professor. Warner Fabian wrote the plot and John V. A. Weaver the drawling dialog of a story that has no connection with the verses by the same title published last year by Joseph Moncure Marsh. The sound-device, recording the Bow voice for the first time, sometimes lags behind, sometimes careers ahead of episodes which arraign young irresponsibility for the purpose of illustrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...contained an unusual amount of bedroom material, especially underpanties. As if vulgarity were not enough, the playwright sought to disentangle the plot with a series of dull and tiresome explanations. It lasted four days. Then a patrol wagon called for Mr. Grew and his assistants. Actress Alice Weaver, chief of the innocents, collapsed, screamed for her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...soon as Il Duce's titles had been inserted, the film was rushed to the Vatican and there viewed with approbation by Pope Pius XI, Son-of-a-Weaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vatican Cinema | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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