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...industries lifted its eyes from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to the U. S. District Court in Boston and settled familiarly into a contentious mood. On one side was the Fashion Originators' Guild of America, founded three years ago to stamp out style piracy and now the principal prop of highgrade dressmaking. On the other side was Wm. Filene's Sons Co., famed Boston department store, which had brought suit charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Back of Filene's stood Associated Merchandising Corp., largest co-operative buying organization for department stores in the East. The National...
Chunk . . . chunk . . . chunk, chunk. The pneumatic tubes shot the news to a waiting world. AAA was dead as NRA. Once again the Supreme Court had knocked a prime prop from under the New Deal...
Turning to leave the House immediately after he ended his speech, Sir Samuel, blinded by his tears, half missed his footing on the stair and reeled. Sympathetic M. P.s rushed to prop him up and out amid an ovation fit for the King...
When, three months ago, dynamic little Darryl Francis Zanuck and his partner, Joseph M. Schenck, merged their flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...
Football candidates who are expected to report in the spring include two prop school captains, F. F. De Rham of St. Marks and R. T. Gannett of Milton Academy, and N. J. Lupion, the brother of a Crimson captain...