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Until it was discovered using the college building for headquarters under the guise of a political discussion group, the Yankee-American Action had no bona fide members on its rolls. The student recruits joined the organization after its expulsion from Harvard grounds...
...cheeker. When he did the publicity for The Great Magoo, which the critics drubbed, he had a hand in the decision of its playwrights, Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, to lie in state in separate coffins at a funeral parlor. For Billy Rose, Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin will get short shrift...
...that workers who wish to bargain collectively with their employer may do so through a union of their own choosing. To accomplish this, the Act: 1) forbids employers to interfere in any way with the workers' choice, even if the interference benefits a supposedly bona fide union, and 2) gives the administrators discretion to make sure that when a group of workers wants a union, they get the one preferred by a majority...
...word "tycoon" originated in Japan. Last week a bona fide tycoon, Takashi Masuda, died in Japan...
...semi-pros, baseball is not a full-time job. The Bona Allens, like 50% of their bottom-crust classmen, are for the most part factory workers (at about $125 a month) for the company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers...