Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photography: Wine Cellar Assistant Otto Rixen. 41, whom New York landscapes remind of the Rhine Valley where he was born...
...Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible on the Baltimore Mail Liner City of Norfolk instead of sailing into New York Harbor on the United States Liner Manhattan as he had previously planned...
...Guild, and the League of New York Theatres representing top producers (a notable exception, Gilbert Miller), agreed to give the playwright full control of play disposition after its legitimate production, also to give him 60% minimum instead of the previous 50% of film-rights share, cutting the play manager's accordingly. Hollywood, accustomed to making the manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau...
...fewer than three institutions offered courses in international relations under the dramatic label of WAR! At New York University's General Education Division, The Next War was to be illustrated by maps of the theatres of the coming conflict, by snapshots and movies of European military forces taken by Professor Charles Hodges. At Hobart College motion pictures of the World War were to be shown in a course on War & Peace. In The Problem of War Wesleyan University promised to prescribe "practical, effective steps for preventing...
...eventually arrived in Chicago riding the rods of a freight. Having learned from hoboes that this was too risky a procedure from Chicago to New York, he bought a ticket, got to Manhattan with 6? left. By extraordinary luck he encountered a Whitman classmate, borrowed $75. Tutoring and writing a textbook on the side, he had $1,000 when summer came round again. Back he went to Yakima to marry pretty Mildred Riddle, a fellow teacher in Yakima whom he had often taken picnicking in an antique automobile. When they reached Manhattan they had precisely 35?. This time, however...