Word: ade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week continued the lining up of teams of famed names for the big game on Nov. 3. To offset the Republicans' Cornelia Otis Skinner, Geraldine Farrar and Ginger Rogers, Democrats had Helen Hayes, Lillian Gish, Grace Moore. Sally Rand. George Ade and Booth Tarkington were signed for Landon. George Jean Nathan and Theodore Dreiser for Roosevelt. Chester A. Arthur III. for Roosevelt, was ready to cancel out John Coolidge's vote for Landon...
...Chicago, Washington, D. C. First promulgated by Macfadden in the 1907 Panic, the chain sells minimum victuals at minimum prices. Last week Macfadden restaurant figures showed a deficit of only $5,610.40 for the first half of 1936. Also acquired in 1931 was Liberty, now the big façade of the Macfadden publishing structure. Publishers Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick could not make it pay. Under the direction of kinetic Editor Charles Fulton Oursler,* who runs the magazine mostly by teletype from West Falmouth, Mass., Liberty (circulation: 2,505,302) is now believed...
Charles Rudy and Henry Kreis were getting together on a Treasury Department commission of $7,500 each for collaboration on "a harmonious pair of sculptures" for the façade of The Bronx Post Office in New York City. Sculptors Rudy & Kreis were winners in an open competition in which Sculptors Paul Manship, Edward McCartan and Maurice Sterne judged some 400 models...
Died. Hadji Mohammed Jamalul Kiram II, onetime Sultan of Sulu, inspiration of George Ade's celebrated 1902 musical comedy of the same name, since his abdication in 1915 spiritual head of the Mohammedans of the Sulu Archipelago; on the Island of Jolo...
Last week the eyes of the world's money changers were fixed upon the baroque façade of a four-story building in the Rue de la Vrillière in Paris. There behind the portals of the Bank of France was the solid centre of another of those swirling convulsions in French finance which off and on for years have threatened to dislodge the franc from gold. This time it looked as if the perennial prophets of the franc's doom might at last be right. By ship, plane and train gold was pouring...