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...rising C. I. O. So by the time this year's municipal primaries rolled around, a rightist revolt was in the air. Mayor Dore sought re-election backed again by rough and ruddy Boss Beck and the A. F. of L.'s Lieut.-Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime jazzband leader who had enlivened previous candidacies with promises of hostesses on owl street cars and flower pots on fire hydrants, ran with the backing of the C. I. O., the organized unemployed and the left-wing Washington Commonwealth Federation. Councilman Langlie's candidacy was based on the belief...
...Manhattan. The groom's best man was Medill McCormick, son of Illinois' onetime Representative, Republican Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and grandson of Mark Hanna. Among the bride's guests at the church were New York's Democratic Representative Caroline O'Day and Mrs. James Aloysius Farley...
Tommy's screen debut cost Producer Selznick $1,250,000. Of this, Tommy's share was $100 weekly. To his father, Michael Aloysius Kelly, Tommy's good fortune meant relief at last from the difficulties of supporting a family on a WPA salary; to Tommy it meant at first more excitement than he had ever dreamed of. His supporting cast was a group of typical Hollywood child players-Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher), Jackie Moran (Huck), David Holt (Sid Sawyer), Marcia Mae Jones (Mary Sawyer), Mickey Rentschler (Joe Harper). Least professional of the lot Tommy's performance...
Last week President Grover Aloysius Whalen of the New York World's Fair Corporation was constrained to do some agile explaining. When he was all through, the status of the fine arts at the New York World's Fair had been greatly clarified, but it looked as if Mr. Whalen was still on the spot...
Soon a second, more elaborate announcement from Grover Aloysius Whalen reached Manhattan city desks. Remembering what he had not remembered before, Mr. Whalen called attention to "a major art project for the New York World's Fair of 1939" involving a Community Arts Centre, where workers in the arts will display the processes of painting, sculpture and printing. "Through these 'arts in production'," said Mr. Whalen, "we hope to bring home to the average man that a work of art is not something conceived on Olympus but is produced by people very much like himself...