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Word: mayer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breed of Big Man. They were plungers, they were impatient of tradition, and they were fascinated by newness, bigness and the sound of battle. Director D. W. Griffith demonstrated that the jerky, flickering motion picture could be a dramatic form with sweep and magnificence. M.G.M's Louis B. Mayer ran a cheap variety theater in Haverhill, Mass, into a cinema empire. Oilman Edward L. Doheny, a gold prospector from Tombstone, Ariz., found a fortune beneath his feet and exploited the vast oil wealth of Los Angeles. Donald Douglas and "Dutch" Kindel-berger built air armadas, and restless Henry Kaiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Pink Oasis | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Nature may be fine, but at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, it appears they gotta improve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...same time, on March 10, Mayer O'Dwyer issued a statement that he had no desire to influence the Board of Higher Education's selection of a president. After this the political flames died down...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, David E. Lilienthal jr., and John G. Simon, S | Title: 'Radical' Students Face Pressures on Campus | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

This statement, said Mayer, is "a misrepresentation of a misquotation from William Allan White." Furthermore, he added that not all the commission members were professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harper's Refutes Chicago Tribune | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

...article, Mayer quoted a statement made in a Tribune editorial in 1947, commemorating the Chicago paper's hundredth anniversary. It said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harper's Refutes Chicago Tribune | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

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