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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sends out no expeditions. It has lists of 11,000 collectors to whom it writes for needed items. Free-lancers send in material on speculation. Earthworms one foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which are bigger than U. S. snails and therefore better for anatomical instruction. Rattlesnakes from Texas sometimes arrive alive, are slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years ago when...
...swooping her Woman's Symphony Orchestra through its tenth, most gratifying season (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). Long before her last concert it became clear that the Opera's loss was the Symphony's gain, that the woman's orchestra might look for more subscriptions, bigger patrons this autumn. Flushed with success, many patrons felt that a more dynamic, impressive conductor than Ebba Sundstrom should be billed. As a compromise, they packed her off to Europe to hobnob with composers, improve her languages, acquire polish. Back she came this fall to an orchestra moved into...
...generally regarded as a master stroke on the part of shrewd General Manager Branch Rickey of the Browns' National League rivals, the highly successful St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis park in which both Cardinals and Browns play belongs to the Ball estate. The Cardinals, who attract bigger crowds on tour than they do at home, have long wanted to play night games, permissible in their league. Because night games have been banned in the American League, the owners of the Browns refused to install lights. Last week, by threatening not to buy and improve the team unless they...
...seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most grandiose...
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