Word: 33rd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not he is elected 33rd President of the U. S., squinty-smiling Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas was last week indelibly imprinted upon his countrymen's memory as The Man Who revived the tune Oh! Susanna as a national theme song. In the course of six days at Cleveland, bands at the Republican National Convention played Oh! Susanna 1,800 times by official count. Into a class with The Sidewalks of New York and California, Here I Come passed the old banjo ballad written by Stephen Foster nearly 100 years ago and first sung into...
...shadow over another Midwesterner also entirely available for the Republican nomination. Still pursuing an unspectacular program, Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News was scurrying around through the midlands rallying small groups to his support. Concentrating last week on Ohio, he joyfully told diners at the 33rd annual McKinley Day banquet of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland that a "cataclysmic division" was rending the Democracy which "will be fatal to the Democratic success in November...
...reasonably doubtful that the nation would have voted the 30th and 31st U. S. Presidents into office so enthusiastically if those gentlemen had previously changed their official names to J. Cal Coolidge and Herb C. Hoover. Nonetheless a stream of important visitors, interested in helping make a 33rd President of the U. S., made their way during the past fortnight to the door of the Kansas Governor who was christened Alfred and now calls himself Alf. In the Press the kind of build-up which experienced partisans know how to produce for a favorite made the Landon name loom larger...
...Fuentelarreyna to blurt the news to Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes: The picture he had finished so quickly that he had had no time to varnish it before shipping it to the U. S. last August, had just won the $1,000 first prize at the 33rd Carnegie International show. It was no less exciting news in Pittsburgh, where Carnegie directors have long had a fondness for modern Spanish painting, have seldom been able to find one that the judges thought worthy of first prize...
Last week's show was not only the Institute's 33rd, but marked the looth Anniversary of the birth of Founder Andrew Carnegie. For this anniversary exhibition 21 nations, more than ever before, were represented. It is an old Carnegie custom to ask gallery-goers to vote on their favorite canvases, and give a prize to the most popular picture at the exhibition's close. From past experience critics dared not hazard which this might be. but found the following pictures worthy of special merit...