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1927The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.[†]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.
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Results of poll of women in 33 States on prohibition
Police find counterfeit money in baggage of Viennese woman
Mrs Snyder's story wavers near end of testimony; child, Lorraine, on stand; Gray begins testimony; text of testimonies
Page, H B, and R V Pollard killed
Chinese merchants reported fleeing from Shanghai to escape extortion or death under Chiang Kai-shek's rule; Ning-Pos Assn, merchant guild, asks reconsideration of order for arrest of Fu Siao-en, Pres of Chinese Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai
Refusal to attend is resented in Spain
Several homes destroyed and large area evacuated near Mays Landing and McKee City; Hammonton, Absecon, So Creek and Cologne threatened
He and D M and B Laulicht, I P Wolfe, W Spiegel, G Harvey, D Schimmel, L Levine and M Friedman arrested, charged with defrauding insurance cos by fake automobile crashes
Bridge Comm's figures on automobile traffic for 10 mos of 1927
Announces his invention of radio directive transmission system using ultraviolet rays and insuring secrecy of messages