Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's present exposition, subtitled "A Pageant of the Pacific," the board of architects was an all-Western team. Chairman was George William Kel-ham, who had also been chief architect for the 1915 show. When he died two years ago he was succeeded by Arthur Brown Jr., another Panama-Pacific architect. Outstanding characteristic of the rest of the Fair architects, as of the exposition they designed, was their collaborative harmony. Fellow members of the Bohemian Club, august sanctuary of San Francisco tradition, most of them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill...
...quartet's diminutive first tenor, Brown, has quiet tastes, plays a little cooncan and setback, mostly just "cheers himself with his family." But stocky Bass Bryant, Second Tenor Davis and Baritone David secretly cherish ambitions to be movie stars. All used to be farmers. Last month Tenor Brown saw his first football game. Uncertain how to behave, he noticed that the other spectators all held their mouths open. So he opened his. Accidentally getting too close to a goal post, he got severely bumped, still carries a bruise or two. Says Tenor Brown: "God help a football game...
...Presidents Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania and Ernest Eden Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, President Bert Mark Jewell of the Railway Employes' Department of A. F. of L. and President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Last week, after Messrs. Gray and Harrison again conferred with Franklin Roosevelt, the committee finally reported...
...structure which is being built, but is by no means complete." Last year the Senate Finance Committee, beset by the clamor of other architects to improve on the plans, commissioned an Advisory Council of 25-including employers, labormen, Government officials and consumers, chairmanned by Princeton Economist James Douglas Brown-to draw up plans for rebuilding the structure. Last week the Council handed back a much amended set of blueprints, designed to repair some of Social Security's major structural flaws...
...brown-haired Louis Ruppel went to the tabloid Chicago Daily Times as managing editor in January 1935, after four years on the New York Daily News, and a brief but exciting term as Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. He found a boisterous, roughhousing staff that would have driven a more timid man to despair, licked it into a fanatically loyal news machine by daily and hourly repetition of his favorite slogan: "Lots of sock...