Word: 65th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Radioldster Lee De Forest, inventor 31 years ago of the audion radio tube which made long-range broadcasting possible, celebrated his 65th birthday by telling reporters how little he thinks of broadcasting, 1938 style: "I seldom tune in. . . . The programs, all swing and croon, are not only poor, but the interruptions for commercial announcements are maddening. . . . Isn't it sickening? It isn't at all as I imagined it would...
...Till his 65th year, Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...
...regarded as a career for unmarriageable females, male fuddy-duddies and a few selfless souls like Jane Addams. Today professional social workers, headed by Harry Hopkins, are key people in Government's multiplex Relief-dispensing machine. When 3,000 of them met last week in Seattle for the 65th National Conference of Social Work, what they said, and what was said to them, was news...
Tall, goateed, strong-voiced Charles Hubbard Judd celebrated his 65th birthday this week, will retire as head of University of Chicago's education department in June. To educators, this is roughly equivalent to what the retirement of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (whom Dr. Judd resembles in physical demeanor) would mean to jurists. Since Psychologist Judd, at 36, went to University of Chicago from Yale, where he was director of the psychological laboratory, he has become perhaps the first U. S. educational statesman...
Soft orchestra music filled the rest of the 15 minutes for which Groves Bromo Quinine (for colds) had hired General Johnson to radiorate. General Johnson proceeded to a grill room on the 65th floor of the broadcasting building and heard NBC's president, Major Lenox Riley Lohr explain why General Johnson's brand of plain speaking was, at least on the subject of social disease, a little too forthright for radio consumption...