Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Echoes of old songs hovered over Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton ballroom one night last week, reviving memories of the days when people crowded three and four on a piano bench, craning to read sheet music tattered from use, or when they sat in beer gardens singing along with wheezy...
"Harvard University is the biggest tax dodger in Massachusetts," Frank A. Goodwin, chairman of the Boston finance commission, told a crowded session of the Legislative Committee on Cities in a fiery speech at the state House yesterday. Defending his administration as head of the commission, Goodwin, who is a former...
When half an hour later H. R. 1491 came up in the Senate, Representatives crowded into the chamber to try to learn the details of what they had just done. Florida's Fletcher, benign rosy-cheeked chairman of the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee, nominal sponsor for the...
When news of the Alaska gold rush reached New Siberia, Welzl caught the fever, mushed across the Arctic ice to get his share. But he soon, like Denver's Horace Austin Warner Tabor, made up his mind that the only golddiggers who made fortunes were the middlemen; he went...
Pittsburghers used to know their Mayor Charles Howard Kline as a "good fellow" who liked the public eye and hid a tendency toward plumpness with snappy, well-tailored suits. Since he was convicted last May of official malfeasance in the purchase of city supplies (TIME, May 23). the Mayor has...