Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Dick Maney was living a pressagent's dream: he was handling six shows at once* four more than any other press agent, and all that the Theatrical Managers, Agents & Treasurers Union allows. His factory was going full blast under strict union rules: he had hired an assistant as soon as he handled two shows; a second assistant as soon as he handled four; a third when he handled six. His helpers were getting a total of $275 a week; he, a minimum of $625 and very likely about...
...that in 1922 William Bioff had been convicted of pandering, sentenced to six months in jail, released after serving just eight days (TIME, Aug. 21, Dec. 4). This was news because Bioff is western representative and reputed boss of the potent International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (Stagehands' Union...
Pegler turned his evidence over to State's Attorney Thomas James Courtney. Attorney Courtney promptly wired a warrant to Los Angeles, where William Bioff was watching over the union problems of Hollywood's cinema technicians, and Bioff was arrested. Before Pander Bioff could be extradited, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois would have to sign a writ of requisition. Governor Horner put off signing a writ. Instead, he ordered a hearing to decide whether or not he ought to sign it at all. In Los Angeles, William Bioff was once more set free...
...locomotives, but the best records were being set by the Western roads that had gone whole hog and plumped for Diesel-electric power. Speeds had been stepped up enormously : Burlington's Fort Worth-Houston and Chicago-St. Paul trains were running on a 66.6-m. p. h. schedule; Union Pacific-Chicago & North Western's two City of Denver trains were averaging 65.4 between Chicago and Denver. Meanwhile, the low maintenance requirement of Diesel-light equipment was making shopmen's eyes pop. As of Oct. 1 the two City of Denver trains had run 1,147,029 miles...
...painting carefully. For if he had, he would have discovered that there are thirteen people seated at the table and forty-eight squares in the tablecloth, caused by folding. These figures, of course, represent the thirteen original American colonies and the forty-eight states now belonging to the union. . . . It is interesting to find that a portrait of Charles Porter, Harvard undergraduate, is now hanging in the Wellesley Art Gallery. . . . In Turner's painting, "Slave Ship," chains are found to be floating on the surface of the water while the slaves to whom they are attached are gradually going under...