Word: carls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boosters of Arizona as a health resort were last week obliged to swallow a bitter purge compounded for them by Field Director Carl Edward Buck of the American Public Health Association. Reported Dr. Buck, after surveying the State's health ambitions and failings: "In every single one of the largely or partially preventable causes of death, Arizona has a much higher rate, in some instances three or even four times higher, than the country as a whole." Arizona's remarkable categories of death: Infant and maternal mortality, tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, diarrhea and enteritis, motor accidents...
...little town of McCook on the Republican River in Redwillow County, Nebraska, George Norris took his usual walk from his house down to Floyd Hagenberger's barber shop to get his morning shave. From the barber shop he strolled as usual to the real-estate office of Carl Marsh, almost the only one of his cronies of bygone days with whom he still is intimate, for the rest have become critical of his philosophy as they have grown well-to-do while he has only grown famous. There in the real-estate office he sat as usual, passing...
...Chicago Federation of Musicians and forbade them last fortnight to make recordings after Feb. i (TIME, Jan. 4). As Draconic as ever, Mr. Petrillo refused to have 12 young students and teachers play for the convention because they did not belong to his union, would not let the Carl Schurz, High School Choir sing for the teachers until its three accompanists had each paid a $12 "standby" fee. Officials in the; Teachers Association grumbled that Mr.' Petrillo had "practically eliminated" Chicago as a future convention ground. The Chicago News bit deeper: "Mr. Petrillo's ungracious act will suggest...
...PEOPLE, YES-Carl Sandburg- Harcourt, Brace...
Three Smart Girls (Universal). Under Carl Laemmle Sr., Universal Pictures Corp. made a specialty of horror pictures. Last spring when benign old "Uncle Carl," who had generously padded his staff with relatives, sold the company he had founded, Banker John Cheever Cowdin and his associates, who bought it, promised profound changes. As an example of what to expect from an alert group of hard-boiled banker-showmen, Three Smart Girls should interest exhibitors. Universal's most ballyhooed 1936 release is the daintiest, quaintest, most hygienic little musicomedy of the season, written, directed and performed with such evident sincerity that...