Word: downey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morton Downey, Rudy Vallee and other high-priced crooners were doubtless astonished last week to learn that comparatively unknown singers in Broadway night clubs had been paid such prices for the past 13 years. But Messrs. Downey & Vallee must have been relieved to know that it was not the nightclub proprietors who paid. Exposed as anonymous benefactor to dozens of night club crooners was one George D. Phelan, 39-year-old employe of J. S. Bache & Co., Manhattan brokers...
Flying from Washington to the Pacific Coast last week Assistant Secretary Davison declared himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of New York. His announcement was in the form of a telegram to James L. Downey, State Committeeman of Long Island's swank Nassau County, thanking him for his offer to withdraw as candidate for Attorney General in order to allow Mr. Davison, also of Nassau, a chance to head the ticket...
...week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus' enclosure. With a snort of rage, Big Nick charged his prostrate keeper, trampled him, gored him with short, sharp horns. One John Downey, visitor at the zoo, heard Keeper Mott's screams, picked up rocks and an iron bar, fought the blue gnu through the bars until the man could be dragged...
...Young America loves to build up an idol, making it far greater than it deserves, and then with equal fickleness tearing it down with all the savagery of an enraged chipmunk. I have known many men who 'croon' who are as fine and good friends as one could wish--Downey, Vallee, Colombo, and others...
...Paul Whiteman's right-hand man. He made all the symphonicky arrangements which earned the Whiteman orchestra its serious regard. Expensive radio stars had a hand in last week's concert : enormous Vaughn De Leath, announced as the first voice to go on the air; fat Morton Downey who looked foolish singing "Kiss Me Goodnight''; the four black Mills brothers huddled around a spikelike amplifier, knees quivering, sounding like a trumpet, a pair of saxophones and a tuba. The actual concert, save as it benefited unemployed musicians, was unimportant. But when bald, egg-shaped Ferde Grofe...