Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertainment of great popular appeal," The Headless Horseman suffered even more from overbilling than it did from the thunderstorm which made its reception almost inaudible. It was written last winter for music students of the Bronxville, N. Y. High School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully reveals that, although she loves Brom van Brunt, she must...
...historic letter was published in 1919, suggesting that Britons voluntarily contribute 20% of their capital wealth to the Government to help it out of its post-War hole. The letter was signed F. S. T. but few Britons figured out that the author was the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Stanley Baldwin, more recently Prime Minister, today a venerable, bumbling peer...
Died. Baron Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, 82, most typical pre-War member of Germany's land-owning Junkers, author of the famed phrase: "A lieutenant and ten men would be enough to lay the ghost of parliamentary government in Germany"; in Marienwerder, East Prussia...
Adman and Author Bruce Barton entered unopposed the Republican primaries for a by-election for Congress in New York's silk-stocking 17th District. Said he: "The 17th pays a tremendous slice of the nation's tax bill. . . . Any nickel-in-the-slot district in the South or West gets more consideration in Washington. This is wrong...
...first note of awe in Author O'Connor's account comes with his description of how the Guggenheims got into the mining business. Preferring to loan money personally rather than trust the banks. Meyer put up $25,000 with a speculating Quaker named Charles Graham, who for $4,000 had bought a water-filled, 70-ft. silver mine in Leadville, Colo. It turned out to be the richest mine in the Rockies. The only Jew in turbulent Leadville, Meyer, now past 50, decided to build his own smelter because he was annoyed with smelter fees. Said a superintendent...