Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor. Bets were even that the chairmanship would be vacant by Aug. 1. Many believed it would still require a public demand from President Hoover to get Mr. Huston out. Speculators selected Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio as his probable successor. To avoid a public explosion on the eve of an important campaign. Republican leaders strove to get the whole unpleasant to-do out of the headlines...
...broke up the team. He said Mack was paying him only $200 a week with a $50 bonus, and $150 for each phonograph record, though the team was averaging $5,000 a week with their famed lines about the early bird, about olives, about "very close" veins, about Adam & Eve. A Los Angeles court ruled that Mack, as originator and owner of the team, had complete right to adjust Moran's salary and to use the team name in billboards. Moran & Mack have had a regular radio job only once-20 weeks on the Majestic Hour program...
Zionism gave the long distance telephone operators at Chatham, Mass., an unusual amount of switchboard plugging last week. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court had just established himself in his summer home there, on the eve of the Zionist Organization of America's convention in Cleveland. The delegates at Cleveland were pondering and discussing his offer to return to active Zionism with his cohorts if the current regime headed by Louis Lipsky were ousted (TIME, July...
...some months, except for a local radio speech, has the voice of Missouri's white-headed, red-faced, raven-throated James A. Reed been heard in the land. But last week, on the eve of sailing for a European holiday, he emitted one of the jibes for which he was long famed as Senator and arch-Democrat. Said...
...campaigned successfully against proposed legislation to raise insurance rates on cabs. And with scarcely less vigor it commanded the attention of Mayor James John Walker to the case of a Jewish driver who had been deprived of his license for refusing to pick up a passenger on Yom Kippur Eve. A two-year battle with the police department forced the opening of "star chamber" hearings of drivers, stamped out police practices by which cabmen had paid $1,000,000 a year petty graft. The paper has provided free counsel for cabmen, maintains gratis a "bureau of fair play" to collect...