Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party last week he invited 15 proletarian nags and one mule. In favor hats (with holes for their ears), looking as giddy as tipsy old maids on New Year's Eve, the horses munched carrots and greens, then champed into a heavily iced birthday cake. Afterward Anna was awarded a special hat-lavender with an ostrich feather-as the most glamorous horse present. But in the contest for work horse with longest service, Anna, being an artist, was disqualified. The award (a leather feed bag) went to Tootsie, who has pulled a pickle wagon through The Bronx...
Just before CAA took over, the Post Office Department had to award contracts for several new airmail lines. Average Government subsidy for carrying the mail, during the four years since airmail contracts have been subject to competitive bidding, has been about 17? a mile. But for the new routes, bids reached new lows. Reason: successful bidders were to get their franchises confirmed as long as "public convenience and necessity" demanded them, when CAA took over, and would consequently have places in line if or when CAA handed out a fatter subsidy...
Contemporary and friend of William Merritt Chase (see p. 19), and a teacher of repute, Tarbell had the unusual distinction of being a juror of award at three international expositions: St. Louis in 1904, San Francisco in 1915, Philadelphia...
...both of these, Capra, as the company's strongest financial asset, has been a more than acceptable substitute. A genial, stocky, 41-year-old son of Sicilian immigrants, he has twice won the top honors of his profession, the Motion Picture Academy's Award for It Happened One Night in 1935, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. Last year, after a prolonged dispute in which he charged Columbia with breach of contract, their differences were composed on a basis that pays Capra roughly $350,000 a year. He has personally created or vastly improved half-a-dozen...
When the Princeton campus heard the news, 123 faculty members signed petitions of "consternation." The undergraduate Liberal club, spurred by Socialist Norman Thomas, Princeton '05, collected 600 signatures protesting "the tyranny and intolerance" for which Hague and "his puppet" Governor Moore stand. The Daily Princetonian called the award "a mistake" but counseled letting it go through "in an honorable way." The University, unable to withdraw its invitation, went uncomfortably ahead to make Harry Moore an honored...