Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage, spherical Mildred Bailey spoils the illusion created by her on the radio. And Roscoe Ates stutters his way through twenty minutes of aged jokes. Except for five expert Japanese acrobats, you can afford to skip the stage show and to arrive in time only for the murders...
Before it passed the House measure last week the Senate upped the tax provision to 75% of the market price, limited the law's operation to one year and finally, at the demand of North Carolina's Bailey, tacked on an amendment which would practically nullify the whole purpose of the bill. The amendment allowed each & every cotton farmer to gin at least six tax-free bales, regardless of quota. Inasmuch as there are about 2,000,000 cotton farmers, that meant a total of 12,000,000 bales even before restrictions were applied...
Other charges: 1) Sworn affidavits testified to 8,000 "ghost" voters; 2) gambling and vice are wide open in Kansas City; 3) it is notorious as a hangout for the criminal riff-raff of the Midwest; 4) Desperado Harvey Bailey was arrested while playing on one of the city's best golf courses; 5) Verne Miller had played in a foursome with Police Director E. C. Reppert shortly before he machine-gunned to death four State and Federal officers in Kansas City's Union Station plaza last June;* 6) the $200,000 payoff in the Urschel kidnapping case...
...trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling captive to quick death by drowning. Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger (see cut, p. 32). Best bait is a fresh aspen limb fastened just behind the trap. Beavers live chiefly on bark, twigs, the roots of water plants...
...Bailey went the gate receipts-$20,909 -paid in by the crowd of 14,000. Both Toronto and the disorganized all-stars were on their best behavior for the occasion. Only two penalties were called...