Word: ballroomful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After learning of the new VA move last night, the University chapter of the AVC went on record supporting Senate Bill 2596, proposed by Senator Taft (R-Ohio), which would require the VA to give benefits to all veterans in all courses (except in ballroom dancing, bartending, glider flying, and the like), in institutions founded before September...
...Savanna, Ill., King solemnly says the obvious: "I'm kind of like a Horatio Alger story." King's story includes stretches as newsboy, railway worker, insurance salesman and clarinetist. In 1927 he brought his romantic profile and even more romantic rhythms into Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, and built up a devoted radio audience when he was sponsored by Lady Esther cosmetics. As a radio fixture, he has piled up more than 10,000 programs...
Last week, on the opening night of a nationwide tour, the first part of Artie's experiment worked. A record-breaking crowd, including a good many of the jammy jitterbug type which apparently hides under logs in the daytime, was lured into Boston's huge Symphony Ballroom. The Shaw faithful, plus a few horn-rimmed jazz intellectuals, clustered around the bandstand, stood through it all without moving much but their gum-chewing muscles. Right there, any resemblance to success stopped...
...flock to keep the blaze going) that when one prosperous Catholic businessman was asked whether he had been around to see the new bishop he replied: "I'd like to, but I can't. I can't afford it." Last week, in the big ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, 155 members of Bishop O'Hara's clergy gathered to cele brate his tenth anniversary in the diocese...
...dozen of them took him to a private dinner and banged the table until the china rattled. Then he was led to an Olympic Hotel ballroom to face 75 more inquisitors. There were seven speeches, most of which reiterated a few pointed questions: "Do you consider Seattle defendable?" "If it isn't defendable, why isn't it?" "If it is, why is Boeing getting no new contracts for Seattle...