Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Apparently decided to hold open until after elections three important vacant Government posts: Labor Relations Board Chairman, Federal Communications Commissioner, Work Projects Commissioner...
...British Royal Navy, whose historic duty is to keep open the Empire's sea lanes and to keep all enemies from Britain's hallowed shores, took all these reports last week with blandest equanimity. On only one point would R. N. agree: the war by sea is certainly going to be intensified, but the R. N. would be the intensifier. During the week R. N. warships indulged again in their bold practice of shelling "invasion ports" along the German held French coast*-Dunkirk, Cherbourg, Brest, Lorient. Paris heard that before long the Germans would be driven back from...
...Roscoe Crafton's idea. Set a-thinkin' by the national publicity given the Corn Belt's annual corn-husking championship, he got some fellow cotton merchants to form an association last winter, sow the seeds of a national cotton-picking contest. "Wide open to the world" it would be. So they sent invitations to the Cotton Belt's Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, asking them to sponsor an entrant apiece...
...Cover) The Rodgers & Hart-John O'Hara musicomedy Pal Joey had most of its lyrics and all its tunes written last week; Cabin In the Sky was ready to open this week; Hi' Ya Gentlemen was about to go into rehearsal. At this point, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie was rocking Boston audiences with its lewd gale before sweeping on to Manhattan. Composer Porter's shows-Jubilee, Red, Hot and Blue, Du Barry Was a Lady-are notable for being often the funniest, often the most risque in the business. Very fast, very funny and energized...
This system is open to abuse if the $37.50-a-week casters relax their ethics. Frequent have been the charges of corruption in Central: that extras buttonholed casters on the street, slipped them a few dollars; that they mowed casters' lawns; that they presented casters with money orders on Hollywood stores; that they sent their clothes to be cleaned at specified cleaners with currency deposited in specified pockets. Year ago these charges were taken up by the Hollywood Reporter, which revealed that a local detective agency had been hired by the Screen Actors Guild to ferret out any misdemeanors...