Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Outdoor Advertising Association of America held its 44th annual convention in Chicago. In the "Hangar" ballroom atop the Hotel LaSalle the billboard men praised their new Traffic Audit Bureau, which does much the same job that the Audit Bureau of Circulation does for publications. And they voted unanimously to retain a ruling laid down in 1915: no hard liquor advertising on poster panels. But as before members may accept such advertising for painted boards, and beer will still be acceptable on both kinds...
...remembered that Theodore Thomas, father of Chicago's music, put on the same act 29 years ago. That the Orchestra will live to give it again was assured by the donations of last week's guests. At the farewell concert three days later the Chicago's 44th season was definitely announced. The Boston Symphony's surprise concert last week was not so hilarious as Chicago's. Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his men dressed up in 18th Century wigs and ruffles, played with candles lighting their music racks, disappeared one by one until only Koussevitzky...
...afternoon last week a crowd gathered before the locked doors of Manhattan's Hippodrome on Sixth Avenue. At 5 p. m. there were two lines five abreast-one stretching down 43rd Street to Fifth Avenue, the other along 44th Street. At 5:30, 6,000 people got in the building...
...biggest Depression purchases: February 1931, 36-story building on the site of famed Delmonico's on Fifth Avenue-formerly occupied by the Bank of United States but now the Ruppert Building; January 1932, the 35-story boom-built Commerce Building at Third Avenue and 44th Street...
...with such men as Mascaro, Vasco Bello, Arsenic Ortix, Cartaya and others of the same type, as his most confidential councilors and advisers, the explanation may be easily seen: of what might otherwise seem quite incompatible'. For why should a 33rd degree Mason align himself with a 44th degree assassin of such insatiable cruelty as Ortiz bristles with and always manifests...