Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that neither play could muster the twelve out of 15 votes necessary to win. After ten fruitless, disputatious ballots,* a weary Critics' Circle decided to make no award. Final score: The Little Foxes, 6 votes; Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 5; Clifford Odets' Rocket to the Moon, 2; William Saroyan's My Heart's in the Highlands...
This deluge of florid tributes to the late Dr. Tucker was brought forth by a bill introduced by Congressman Smith, which would allow the producers of the specific (now Dr. William B. Robinson and his son Dr. Gerard Briscoe Robinson, a graduate of Yale Medical School) to continue their business of diagnosing and prescribing asthma medicine through the mail. Under the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, this practice is illegal. To comply with the Act, which goes into effect next June, Robinson patients will have to come to Mount Gilead for treatment...
...William K. Howard (Fire Over England). Director Howard (on a profit-sharing basis) wrote the original story, produced and directed Back Door to Heaven, laid it in his home town of St. Mary's, Ohio, at the last moment smeared himself with grease and enacted the part of the prosecuting attorney who sends Frankie to the chair. Such versatility caused Director Howard's friends at Manhattan's Stork Club, whose major-domo Jack Entratter got a policeman's part in the picture, to refer to him as "Noel Howard." Back Door to Heaven being what...
...William Tudor Gardiner, twice Governor of Maine and now head of Boston's Incorporated Investors, raised Nathaniel Drummond ("Nat") Moore to the presidency of his $10,000,000 Pacific Coast Co. (railroads, steamships, mines, cement factories), succeeding Thomas Arthur Davies, who resigned to handle personal interests. Grey-haired Nat Moore has worked for Pacific Coast for 40 years, knows his 1,000 employes by their first names...
...President Duncan John Kerr of Lehigh Valley R. R. was nominated to become a director of Great Northern Ry. A Scot who likes bridge, fishing and "just being in Montana," Railroader Kerr will probably be the next Great Northern president, succeeding William P. Kenney, who died in January...