Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Humbler and bigger Kentucky Military Institute ($950 tuition, 225 enrollment) was established at Franklin Springs, Ky. in 1845. It moved to Lyndon, Ky. a half-century ago, went on the move two years ago when its headmaster Colonel Charles Blair Richmond bought a Depression-crippled resort hotel and a block of stores at Venice, Fla., whither K. M. I. repairs every January...
...market two News features, Howard Vincent O'Brien's column All Things Considered, and Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie's A Breath of Outdoors. Counting the old fashion article, the Esquire syndicate offers prospective customers eleven different features, to be purchased singly or in block...
...Nine Days A Queen" is, to a degree, disjointed in its sequences, a fault common to all but the finest historical movies. And it may seem that the production depends rather heavily upon pageantry, mass scenes, and the chopping block for its effect...
Riding to Worcester, Mass., Alf Landon had the company of New Hampshire's H. Styles Bridges (see p. 15), of Massachusetts Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (see p. 14), of Publisher Frank E. Gannett. Another publisher, Paul Block, had asked and received permission to join the nominee. As the special paused in Worcester's railroad yards, Alf Landon appeared on the rear platform of his private car. Meanwhile, up in front trainmen had uncoupled the special's engine and baggage car. Publisher Block, who is a great & good friend of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, had unexpectedly arrived...
Last week a stumbling block was placed in the National Committee's way when Attorney General Cummings warned that its blackboard users might be prosecuted for violating a Federal law. The law, an obscure one passed in 1918, states that anyone may be fined $1,000 and imprisoned for one year, if, in making a sale or lease, he ascribes any part of the price to a Federal tax. The Attorney General, who said his warning had been provoked by about a dozen complaints from the Midwest against Republican tax propaganda, had never heard of anyone being prosecuted under...