Word: previously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swift passage of a tax-reduction bill. Last week House Speaker Joe Martin predicted that Congress would "send the White House a tax present some time in January." The present he had in mind was the bill introduced in December by Minnesota's persistent Harold Knutson, whose two previous bills were vetoed by Harry Truman. The new bill would cut taxes some $5.6 billion, by reducing rates and increasing personal exemptions...
...Santa Monica, Calif., Bing Crosby, 43 and balding, entered a hospital for a checkup the day after U.S. movie exhibitors* voted him box-office champion of the year-as he had been voted the three previous years. Next-most-magnetic, reported the exhibitors, was blonde Betty Grable, who also sings. Third best crowd-puller: Ingrid Bergman, even though no new Bergman movie was released all year...
Editor since origin of the publication in the fall of '46, Miss Tinker retires with the rest of the previous senior executive board. Signature was formerly titled Radditudes, and exclusively served 'Cliffedwellers. Last fall, however, it assumed its present name when it expanded to include the College...
Meanwhile Rex Riccardi, vice-president of the American Federation of Musicians, admitted "I don't believe there is anything we can do against the Band." Previous to Petrillo's January 1 ban against union-made records, the AFM was able to block the Band by boycotting stores which distributed non-Union dises...
...Goldovsky's staging surpassed all his previous efforts. The sets, designed by Richard Rychtarik, ranged from a shipwreek on a rocky coast to the gloomy interior of a pagan cave-temple and included the effective device of magic lantern projection on a backdrop. Mr. Goldovsky made excellent use of the stage in his direction of the principals and chorus and in his use of a small but good-looking ballet, reaching the peak of his imagination in the storm scene and the finale, a would-be sacrifice of Idamantes in the temple. Leo Van Witsen's costumes were also outstanding...