Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Little Old New York saloonkeeper's son, born in slummy Mulberry Bend, orphaned at seven, a runaway (from Father Drunogie's orphanage) in his 'teens, Joe Howard had been on the boards for 60 years. His runaway took him to St. Louis where, still in short...
Around Joe Howard, Producer Rinker built up for CBS a show called Gay Nineties Revue, in which, every Sunday evening since July, grey old Joe has been barking up the gaslit atmosphere of Tony Pastor's and the spirit of Maggie Cline. Joe sings his own songs, hails such...
Most startling chapter in Dr. Butler's autobiography is "On Keeping Out of Public Office." "The pressure upon me to accept public office," says he, "began early and has been unremitting all these years." Offices he says he has turned down: New Jersey legislator, U. S. Representative and Senator...
¶In Canada, many a first-grade moppet began the term without textbooks, for the books they were to have used went down with the Athenia.
Because his father had long been a power in New Jersey Republican politics, young Butler planned to study law, go into politics himself. But Columbia's President Frederick A. P. Barnard persuaded him into pedagogy. He lived to fulfill Dean Burgess' prediction, to expand Columbia from 5,000...