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...here is Willy! And he's a fine looking man. But there he goes again pushing that toy car up and down the long corridor. He pushed it all day yesterday; he'll push it all day today. He calls his toy "Packward". It's his constant...
...find anything better" department. It's average fare, of the sort turned out by Warner Brothers every four or five months. With the unfortunate death of Will Rogers, the frores Warner were left with only Shirley Temple as a number one asset. They have been trying to push Kay Francis into this class for two years, but a star is made by the public, net by a producer...
...Workers' President Lewis had inserted in the convention record a catalog of accusations against the shortcomings of Green & Co.'s administration. No Federation action, said Miner Lewis, had been taken on 46 Congressional bills urged at the previous annual meeting. A. F. of L. had failed to push for equality of wages for women, had ignored 24 studies and investigations ordered by the delegates in 1934. Last week the record of last month's convention was available at A. F. of L.'s headquarters in Washington. Those who turned to the record were astonished...
...been allowed to pick as his successor, Ira Noel Gabrielson, 46, a conservation expert who has spent all but the first three years of his professional life with the Biological Survey. Of new Chief Gabrielson, who weighs 260 lb., Ding remarked: "They won't push him around...
...point Dr. Kapitza went to his native land to attend a convention. When he started to return to England, the Soviet Government refused him permission to leave, explained bluntly that his services were needed at home. Peter Kapitza wailed that his work was in pure science, could not possibly push the Second Five-Year Plan. The high command, with an eye for prestige as well as services, was adamant. The Soviet Embassy in London issued a statement...