Word: granting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will seize and work mightily with the material of America. Benton has never painted a picture with the dramatic power of John Steuart Curry's Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating pattern, is the most imaginative and distinct of the three...
Divorced. Cinemactress Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille le Sueur), 33; from Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 34; at last, after the judge had refused to grant a "proxy" divorce, required Mrs. Tone's appearance "in person"; in Los Angeles...
...future permit NLRB to set aside agreements only if they: 1) are with an outright company union; 2) grant a closed shop to a union which does not exclusively represent the employes covered; 3) deny a union exclusive bargaining privileges...
When Granville Hicks was appointed one of the counselors in American civilization last year this paper urged "if Hicks proves a success as a councilor, that Harvard grant him a regular position on the Faculty." For some unexplained, but perhaps not inexplicable, reason neither Mr. Hicks nor any of his fellow councilors were reappointed to the jobs in which they were beginning to attain the skill that comes from experience. But what is a loss to the American Civilization plan can in this case be turning to the advantage of one of the regular departments of the University...
...UNIVERSITY--The same whitewashed British Lancers--this time in the persons of Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Victor McLaglen; the same vicious tribesmen, now worshippers of the goddess of blood; the same melodramatic story--these form the skeleton of "Gunga Din," Hollywood's latest version of "The Lives of A Bengal Lancer." Yet about this skeleton has been built the flesh of humor, and into the whole has been breathed the breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling...