Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Robbins '37, the Vocal Club under the tuition of Malcolm Holmes '28 has been working on three Russian songs; "Song of the Volga Boatmen", "Fireflies", and "At My Father's Doorstep". Also included on the program are the two dities, "What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?" and "The Pope." An innovation will be accompaniment of the Vocal Club by the Banjo and the Mandolin Clubs in two of the folk songs...
...politics as in fruit, California boasts the juiciest, the most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression...
Most notable violator of that rule is Frank O. King, who draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling...
...bail he comes. Then to his aid go eminent volunteer counsel-David Aiken Reed and John William Davis-who personally re-enact their conferences with their client following his conviction in Federal Court (TIME, Dec. 17). And The March of Time camera takes the Perkins case to the doorstep of the Supreme Court...
...delegation was ushered into the Presidential office Mr. Roosevelt had got the news from his ticker. He met Banker Law grinning. The New York Herald Tribune solemnly quoted the President of the United States as saying: "I hear you are broke and are begging on the White House doorstep." That noon, having smiled warmly upon the Right, President Roosevelt quietly had his old friend and close adviser, Professor Felix Frankfurter, to lunch at the White House. They discussed "general" questions...