Word: backe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele, earlier this year the candidate of Stork Club's Pressagent Charles ("Chic") Farmer for 1940 Glamor Girl. Notably absent: Patricia Plunkett, shapely, blonde daughter of Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, suggested by Glamorizer Farmer as substitute candidate when Mrs. Steele yanked Mary back into the shadows of glamorless respectability...
...automobile collision at Azusa, Calif., Thomas Leo McCarey, cinema director (The Awful Truth, Ruggles of Red Gap), and Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan), journalist, author (The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line, Illusion in Java), were burned by gasoline flames. Director McCarey had a fractured skull, Writer Fowler injuries to back and chest. First to recover, Fowler telephoned his agent, offered him 10% of his cuts...
...Johann himself did not slip, was soon turning out waltzes to beat the band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...
...reforming Senator George Norris on his side. "The Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old tricks. ... It happens again that the holding company is robbing its own subsidiaries, in order to enrich itself." Rejoined Willkie: "Completely and absolutely false." Back came George Norris with another blast to the effect that the cost of the stock deal would be reflected in electric rates paid by Michigan consumers...
...Mineral Policy, which urgently recommended accumulation of a stockpile. But the President, who won his bet with Senator Borah that World War II would begin in autumn 1939, never pressed for action. When war came, the price of tin shot up from 49? to 75? a lb., then slumped back as the first wave of inventory buying passed. Last week, independently of Government initiative, U. S. tin smelting was cautiously getting off to a new start. Two famed U. S. copper interests-Phelps Dodge (No. 3 U. S. copper unit) and American Metal Co., Ltd. (No. 1 U. S. investor...