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...either overlooked or avoided. The leading parts of the missionary (Katherine Standing) and the sailor (David Tearle) are under-acted, while the various character parts are over-acted in every case with the possible exception of Clive's. The only memorable part is that of an alluring chambermaid (Elizabeth Johnston) sent to seduce the hero, but who succeeds only in winning the hero's cockney steward...

Author: By E. Dub., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...yellow-dog" contract is an agreement of employment wherein the employe promises the employer not to join any labor union. Largely because he once upheld the validity of such a contract, so hateful to union labor, the Senate rejected the nomination of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court (TIME, May 19, 1930). Declared the House Judiciary Committee reporting H. R. 5315: "The vice of such contracts, which are becoming alarmingly widespread, is that if they are carried to their ultimate conclusion, they would abolish trade-unionism. That is undoubtedly the purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Yellow Dog's End | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...Ivan Murray Johnston, who took his Ph.D. in 1925, is a research associate at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. The problem of the dispersal of plants in the Western Hemisphere, and the manner in which plants in the western United States were transferred to Central America will occupy Dr. Johnston's time during the year that the Fellowship covers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT GRADUATES FROM HARVARD GET GUGGENHEIM FUNDS | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Crew F: Stroke, Johnston; 7, Haberstroh; 6, Davis; 5, Kratovil; 4, Cook; 3, Brown; 2, Holbrook; Bow, Garfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 80 FRESHMEN ASSIGNED TO TENTATIVE BOATINGS | 3/11/1932 | See Source »

Crew A: Stroke, Herman; 7, deBraganca; 6, Hamblet, 5, Morison; 4, Carman; 3, Johnston; 2, Watson; Bow, Mather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 80 FRESHMEN ASSIGNED TO TENTATIVE BOATINGS | 3/11/1932 | See Source »

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