Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things "Uncle Dan" Roper did for the New Deal, besides afford unintentional comic relief as Secretary of Commerce, was help Jim Farley organize the Young Democratic Clubs of America. Young Democrats are aged 21 to 39 and some 5,000,000 of them are now enrolled. They held conventions in 1933 (Kansas City), 1935 (Milwaukee), 1937 (Indianapolis), but not until last week, when 10,000 of them assembled at Pittsburgh for a war dance in Duquesne Garden, did they have much national significance. Then they suddenly seemed very important indeed, because their seniors in the New Deal organized and used...
Last month the long-awaited showdown began. General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano whose radio broadcast was a nightly comic turn during the War, made a speech declaring that the Army, which had done the fighting, should also do the ruling-not gun-shy, upstart politicians (like Señor Serrano Suñer). The brash General was promptly removed from his command of the South. Also dismissed was Juan Yagüe, pudding-faced idol of the Moroccan corps. If the purge of Army malcontents had been completed it would have meant the expulsion of Rebel heroes like Generals Solchaga...
Divorced. Gracie Fields (real name: Stansfield), 41, Britain's No. 1 music-hall comic; from Actor-Producer Archie Pitt; in London, England...
...century ago, P. T. Barnum produced The Drunkard to show the tragic effects of drink. In 1933 The Drunkard was revived in Los Angeles to show the comic effects of time. Last week the Los Angeles revival went into its seventh year,* breaking all known theatrical records for a continuous (seven-days-a-week...
...Eddie Cantor's Camel Caravan show. CBS. Substitute, starting last week (perhaps for good): Blondie, a radio version of the cinema version of a Hearstpaper comic strip...