Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five years ago, the Manhattan drama season always seemed to open on Labor Day, with the late John Drew descending a grand staircase of the Empire Theatre in something by Arthur Wing Pinero. No such impressive starting gun has ever inspired the art world, but for the past two years a modest parallel has existed in the annual shows of Government-inspired art held in Manhattan early in September. At these exhibitions taxpayers are given some idea of what unemployed artists and others on WPA rolls are producing for their money...
Last week a caravan of seven dusty Army automobiles drew up before the courthouse in Springfield, Baca County, Colo., cradle of the Dust Bowl. Out of the cars clambered the President's special Drought Commission chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke. His chief coadjutor was Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell. Under the cottonwood trees on the courthouse lawn they listened for an hour to the tales of some 50 farm folk who knew Drought by bitter experience...
...blooming. Arriving at a Pontine farm which he helped sow with wheat last year, the Dictator last week pitched in under a broiling sun and helped thresh. Afterward, with sweat pouring down his dust-begrimed face, Thresher Mussolini presented his work slip for an hour's labor, drew the regulation five lire...
...Troyanovsky, escorting Soviet People's Commissar for Food Industry Anastas Mikoyan. Capitalists never had a more implacable enemy than Commissar Mikoyan. He is a genuine, bomb-throwing Old Bolshevik, who, with the final Soviet victory, rose to high Communist rank in the Caucasus. Last week he politely drew out President Gay on operations of the Exchange, was surprised to be told that U. S. banks have no memberships on the Big Board...
...present the week's 15 most popular songs. Mr. Hill promises to give a carton of his cigarets to every listener who correctly predicts, in order of popularity, the first three songs. By last month, the "Lucky Strike Sweepstakes" had used 150 tons of application blanks. Biggest week drew 6.500,000 replies. Biggest weekly give-away was 43,000,000 cigarets which set American Tobacco back about $200.000. To facilitate his flood of free smokes, Mr. Hill is using every station of N. B. C.'s combined Red & Blue networks, at a weekly cost...