Word: ever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever since Oct. 24, 1929, crinkle-headed, crinkle-mouthed Crooner Rudy Vallée has spread his oleaginous voice on the air waves for Standard Brands Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Gelatin). Their partnership is radio's longest. Radio's first big variety show made Yale-bred Rudy Vallée (real name: Hubert Pryor Vallée) radio's first big-money performer, began radio's first national song craze (I'm Just a Vagabond Lover), first exploited the radio talents of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford...
Francis of Assisi, simplest and kindliest of saints, lived in an age when Christendom sent army after army to wrest the Holy Land from the infidel. Burning to convert, rather than slaughter, the paynim, St. Francis took Palestine as a province of his order, before he or his followers ever laid eyes on it. When he did arrive there in 1219, the little saint settled Franciscans in some of the Holy Land's holy places. In 1333, by treaty with the Sultan, and with papal approval, Franciscans were awarded permanent "Custody of the Holy Land"-i.e., care...
...American Medical Association, Dr. Scott C. Runnels, secretary of the Hospital Obstetric Society of Ohio, announced that, according to the latest statistics, the U. S. maternal mortality rate had dropped 22% in the period from 1930 to 1937. Reason: more women go to hospitals for delivery now than ever before. However, added Dr. Runnels, the maternal death rate is still appallingly high in many sections of the U. S. One fourth of maternal deaths, he said, are caused by abortion and ectopic pregnancy (development of a foetus outside the uterus...
...conservative, steady, hard-working newspaperman who not only covers police but, under the name of Verdino, writes a daily column on fishing and hunting, and finds time to act as secretary of the St. Louis Newspaper Guild. He is going to write his memoirs, if he can ever find the time...
...telegraph editor for his Enterprise. Shannon stayed put for three years, then went to New Orleans. Five months later he wired Publisher Etheredge that he was tired of wandering, would rather live in Beaumont than any place on earth. He got his job back and has been there ever since-in spite of occasional carouses (for which he would always apologize in 2,000-word letters), in spite of threats to inefficient assistants to "come around the desk and get you," in spite of a sit-down strike he once conducted to get a good assistant a raise. Shannon took...