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Word: columbia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadcasting over the coast-to-coast long-wave network of the Columbia Broadcasting System and over a shortwave station to France, 34 picked membes of the Glee Club will present a half-hour program sponsored by the Ministre de Poste, Telephone, et Telegraphic of France on Thursday afternoon from 3:30 to 4 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB WILL OFFER BROADCAST TO FRANCE | 2/16/1937 | See Source »

Inspecting Washington's District Jail,; golfing District of Columbia Commissioner George Edward Allen spied his Negro caddy in jail for disorderly conduct, obligingly paid the $3 fine necessary to effect his release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...first decision of its kind ever rendered, District of Columbia Supreme Court last week denied the suits, declared that passengers assume "the risks necessarily incident to traveling in the air, known as perils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Perils of the Air | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...revered London Economist. They hired Novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman (The House of Bondage) for editor, transferred him from the Washington Post to the Observer's Manhattan office. Editor Kauffman appointed as his general manager the Post's General Manager Eugene MacLean. Executive Editor of the Observer is Columbia University's economist, Ralph West Robey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Financial Observer | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Devil's Playground (Columbia) lacks novelty of background, U. S. naval deep-sea work having been used before. Jack Dorgan (Richard Dix) is a diver who can stand more subaqueous pressure than anyone else at the San Diego base but blows up handsomely when he finds Bob Mason (Chester Morris) in over-close proximity to Mrs. Dorgan (Dolores Del Rio). After Mrs. Dorgan has told the truth about this situation, Jack goes out to rescue Bob who is wrecked in the submarine Nautilus at a depth of 300 ft. Barring some crude miniature shots, the sequences dealing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Devil's Playground | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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