Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular overnight run from Washington to Norfolk. About midnight a ''red-faced'' man stepped up to the deserted refreshment counter and ordered a bottle of beer. Just as he was served, a lean, bespectacled, elderly man, whose grey head was topped with a brown beret, sauntered up beside him. Because they seemed to be total strangers, the clerk was surprised when the red-faced man handed his beer over to the man with the beret, still more surprised when the red-faced man then ordered a bottle of Coca-Cola for himself and walked out with...
...came his lieutenant John Brophy "to explain" C. I. O. not only to the Woodworkers but to the Maritime Federation of the Pacific (which includes not only longshoremen but sailors, engineers, radiomen, cooks, firemen -40,000 strong". In both meetings, held simultaneously in different rooms of Portland's brown brick Labor Temple, diagonally across from the city hall, the fight between C. I. O. and A. F. of L. will be fought out. The outcome may provide an answer to the question whether Mr. Bridges or Mr. Beck is going to be Mr. Big on the Pacific Coast...
...curtain of water projected by jets at the surface hid the stage. In the final scene Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg) gave vent to his anti-Fascist feelings with a song called "It Can't Happen Here," a ballet of Men in Black, Men in Brown. Men in Red, a procession of four miniature battleships moving across the water accompanied by martial music and the drone of airplane propellers. At the climax, a girl in a rhinestone robe mounts in a hidden elevator to the tower-top, with an escort of imitation West Point cadets and fireworks...
Relying on the radio reports of a U. S. Navy-National Geographic Society expedition, a Brown expedition, and a group of Peruvian and Japanese scientists, the University astronomers were content to stay at home yesterday during the first total eclipse...
David F. Aberle; Alfred R. Babcock; Sherman N. Baker; Joseph N. Ball, Jr.; Nathan F. Banfield, 3d.; James B. Banghart; James M. Barnett, Jr.; Christoph F. W. Berliner; Edwin A. Blackwell; Henry W. Blood; Richard J. Both; Thornton F. Bradshaw; John W. Brainerd; Robert A. Brooks; Milton P. Brown; James R. Butler; Richard S. Carroll; Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.; Peter J. Chenery...