Word: charlestoning
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...Oldest is the Charleston Museum, Charleston, S. C., founded...
...Senator Blease and Candidate Byrnes will enter a run-off election next week. Six years ago Senator Blease defeated Candidate Byrnes in a similar run-off for the Senatorial nomination after a whispering campaign had revived the fact that Byrnes was born and brought up a Roman Catholic in Charleston only to leave that faith when he entered politics. South Carolina's seven Democratic Congressmen were all renominated. Eight candidates sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Olin D. Johnson, 35, on a pledge to stop work on the State's much-needed $65,000,000 road program...
...years, the Dancing Masters of America enjoyed their season of greatest prestige five years ago when the Charleston craze was at its zenith. Before that the Dancing Masters had been comparatively a small organization. But the impetus given dancing by the crazy Negro jazz-jig was felt by hordes of people who had never before trod a ballroom floor. Schools by the hundreds mushroomed all over the land. Applicants deluged Dancing Masters for membership. Today they are the largest professional group in the world...
Since the Charleston died, the Dancing Masters have waned in importance. Each year they have continued to give ex cathedra notice of what the U. S. shall dance, but more and more they follow and do not lead. For the Dancing Masters well know now that it is not their fiat that calls the turn in U. S. dancesteps, but such creations as Gilda Gray's Shimmy, Bill Robinson's tapping, George White's Black Bottom, Schwab & Mandel's Varsity Drag, such agencies as Tin-Pan Alley...
...shafts, fishing rods, snowshoes, skis; another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed. American Fork & Hoe is a typical large, closely held company. Its assets are near $10.000,000. Its earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company is George Britton Durell...