Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Boston newspapermen and photographers watched train, bus, and plane terminals one rainy Monday morning early this month, Fornier--Chanceller Heinrich Bruening of Germany slipped quietly into his Lowell House apartment...
...pocket. Moreover, steel is only one of C.I.O.'s many fronts. In other mass-production industries like oil, glass, rubber, motor, mining, there have been no serious setbacks. C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union has been sweeping the field among Manhattan's taxi-drivers and subway and bus employes. Its office workers are invading Wall Street. Here & there C.I.O. has lost minor collective bargaining elections to A. F. of L.. but the defections of A. F. of L. unions into C.I.O.'s ranks still continues. Even Cigar Makers International Union Local No. 144, the local...
Easy Living (Paramount). When Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) is riding downtown on top of a Fifth Avenue bus, a sable coat lands on her head. Enraged because the feather in her hat is broken, she insists that J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold), who threw the coat out of his penthouse to enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter...
...Evolution was in the hands of 7,700 subscribers last week, of whom more than 4,000 bought their subscriptions from Crusader Katterfeld in personal interviews. In five years he canvassed libraries, universities and schools in 45 States and in Canada, estimates that he traveled 42,000 miles by bus, train and trolley, 12,000 miles on foot, made sales talks to 20,000 persons. He found that most universities offer some instruction in evolution, but that many present it as an unsubstantiated theory and many more avoid the term "evolution" entirely. Baylor University in Texas does not teach...
...important banking conference, the latter scribbled the just-arrived score of a football game on a card and slipped it to the former-Yale 7; Princeton 0. Back from van Zeeland came the re-joinder-"Belgian Cabinet: Princeton 2; Yale 0." Cabinet Minister of Transport Vicomte Charles de Bus de Warnaffe was once a Princeton graduate student too. Mr. van Zeeland's brother and his nephew both studied at Princeton. He has promised that as soon as his elder son graduates from Louvain he shall study at Princeton...