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Little by little the paralysis crept up the surrounding valleys. In the San Joaquin Valley, 400 workers quit their vineyards. In the Salinas Valley, truck garden for San Francisco, produce was moved east and south, seeking other markets. Throughout the entire area roads were crowded with hundreds, perhaps thousands of refugees from the afflicted zone, mostly women and children being sent to the country where food could be had. By mid-afternoon of the first day it was estimated that 100,000 people had left town in 24 hours. A typical refugee was a steamship executive who moved his family...
...picks up his wife and daughter at the studio on his way home. Business at his branch has picked up 5% since his daughter became famed; new depositors often turn out to be people who want to get their children cinema work. Indignant at suggestions that he should quit his job to manage his daughter's affairs, George F. Temple pays some heed to her finances. It finally occurred to George F. Temple that the No. 1 cinema sensation of the year was being grossly underpaid. He instructed Fox that, despite a five-year contract, Shirley Temple would...
...fierce pre-Raphaelite atmosphere," Marguerite Steen was nat urally warped into an, artistic bent. Her family wanted her to be a painter; she was determined to go on the stage. A dissatisfiedschoolteacher in 1914, she wanted to do war work, was again prevented by her family. She saved ?20, quit her job and knocked on London stage doors, found them all shut. She became a governess, a dancing teacher. Mrs. Patrick Campbell watched her work, offered her a job. Three years of touring cured her. She worked in a London sandwich bar, taught elocution, began to write. Now a full...
After three years at the University of Kansas, Herbert Pettey quit to take a job in the ready-mixed concrete company of Democratic Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, Mo. Later he worked for MGM pictures and Radio Corp. of America. During the 1932 campaign, Mr. Pettey managed the radio work for the Democratic National Committee. When the Democrats came into power grateful Chairman Farley made him secretary to the Radio Commission. In addition, the Herald Tribune reported, with a letter from "General" Farley to prove it, Secretary Pettey, while drawing Federal pay, retained his job as No. 1 radio...
...pusfilled whitlow on the Prime Minister's finger. When this had been lanced and half a fingernail removed, Lord Horder insisted on going thoroughly over his patient. The eyes were indeed weak; general condition, rundown. Meekly James Ramsay MacDonald assented when Lord Horder told him he must positively quit London at once without waiting for Parliament to rise in August...