Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of Secretary of War James William Good. For the post he had ample qualifications: 1) an A. E. F. War record that won him a citation for bravery; 2) a good knowledge of War Department routine; 3) a smart political head; 4) a bright and engaging personality to color an otherwise sombre Cabinet...
...crew quickly recovered from first fright, looked out the portholes. They saw "steel-like fangs of ice moving stealthily through the water, which changes in color . . . throughout the entire range of blues." They saw prawn-like and cock-roach-shaped creatures, sea fleas, medusa jelly fish. Through compression chambers they took samples of water and bottom sludge...
...eminent American. Next year's convention will be held in Washington. D.C. to celebrate K. of C.'s 50th anniversary. How to give color to such a ceremony? Always a good way is to unveil something. K. of C. has already aided in putting up a memorial to Christopher Columbus in Washington (as well as getting his birthday observed). On its Golden Anniversary, announced Supreme Knight Carmody last week, K. of C. will honor, because of his "preeminence as a great American," the late great James Cardinal Gibbons. In the Manhattan Studio of Sculptor Leo Lentelli now stands...
...metropolitan gem set in a mountain wasteland. The finest mechanical equipment was bought. In the early days of the Mergenthaler linotype machine, the Anaconda Standard at one time had more of them in operation than had any Manhattan daily. When Richard F. Outcault's "Yellow Kid" ushered colored comics into the Manhattan field, Publisher Daly had to have some, sent for Thorndyke, Trowbridge, Loomis, then three of the highest-priced newspaper artists in the country. Color decks and photo-engraving equipment were rushed to Anaconda and the Standard produced its own four-page colored comic supplement...
...Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown: IT HAS BEEN MY MISFORTUNE TO DEAL WITH A GOOD MANY DIRTY NEWSPAPERS. . . . THE KANSAS CITY STAR DOESN'T HESITATE TO COLOR THE NEWS AS IT SEES FIT. ... I THINK THEIR PAPER SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED FROM THE MAILS...