Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only once in the history of the English-speaking theatre has one man been a partner in two firms that have both become household names. In the 1920s, the best-known playwrighting partnership in the U. S. was that of Kaufman & Connelly. In the 1930s it has been that of Kaufman & Hart...
What Thoreau really meant by his life was even less clear to succeeding generations, began to clarify at last under the triumph of industrialism, the rise of dictatorships. In the 1930s this "friend of woodchucks and enemy of the State emerges as the most read and most readable U. S. writer of his time...
...Durstine, who began as general manager of BBD&O, became president in 1936. But there was no little guessing that he was difficult to work with, and advertising profits in the 1930s were not so great as they had been in the salad days of Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Last week Roy Durstine suddenly resigned, giving no reason. Bruce Barton became president and William H. Johns, head of the Batten firm when it merged, was made chairman of the BBD&O board. What adman Durstine would do next was admen's gossip last week...
...completely as the Castles symbolized theirs. Astaire, born Austerlitz in Omaha, is eleven years younger than Vernon Castle. With his sister Adele, now Lady Cavendish, he was the top U. S. stage dancer of the 1920s. With Ginger Rogers he has been the top cinema dancer of the 1930s. In popularity, proficiency, appearance and earning capacity, Ginger Rogers is at least the equal of Irene Castle in her best days...
Archie Graustein, however, was no paper man. And three years ago, after both International and the industry had begun to recover from their doleful declines in the early 1930s, he was invited to resign as president of International Paper, but to remain president of International Paper & Power (top holding company for all the subsidiaries). Mr. Graustein resigned from both in a huff and went back to lawyering. Richard J. Cullen, who had been in the paper business since he was 22, got his jobs...