Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Tom Pendergast's Police Director Otto Higgins resigned, wept at having to leave "the best police department in the country." While Kansas City wondered whether Tom Pendergast's machine was cracking up, Mayor Smith & Co. made a great to-do about closing gambling dens, putting clothes...
There are four planetariums already operating in the U. S.-the Adler in Chicago, the Pels in Philadelphia, the Hayden in Manhattan, the Griffith in Los Angeles. All were financed in whole or part by philanthropists. So also is the new Buhl in Pittsburgh, financed out of a $13,000...
Biggest 25? worth of facts & figures the cinema industry could buy last week was a 377-page review of foreign film markets during 1938, issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Most comforting figures: despite censorship bans and trade barriers in authoritarian countries, Hollywood lost only 6% of its...
In Washington, D. C. the U. S. Treasury Department's Procurement Division sought "one male human skeleton, with bones of a single individual." Specifications: removable arms, legs, feet, skull, one removable hand, one horizontal skull cut. Purpose: exhibition at the Marine Hospital, St. Louis.
Kansas. Outside Hollywood, only one U. S. literary man appeared in the Treasury Department's list of 1937's highest salaried citizens: Dr. Arthur Hertzler, author of the bucolic, best-selling tribute to the struggling country physician, The Horse and Buggy Doctor. Highest salaried man in Kansas in...