Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alabama's Bibb Graves got a law degree at Yale in 1896, but he has remained a man of the people. When he was Governor of Alabama from 1927 to 1931 he proposed installing public radio sets in every town so that Alabamans could hear music. He favors good...
Government Competition. Aside from slum clearance, the Government should not start housing schemes in competition with private capital. Already competing in 200 kinds of business, it should cease such activities to provide work relief. "Our government was neither conceived nor fashioned to engage in competition with its citizens."
Enrico Caruso was the tenor, Arturo Toscanini the conductor on that November night in 1908 when Giulio Gatti-Casazza mounted his first performance as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. The opera was A'ida, chosen by Gatti out of reverence for his friend and hero, Composer...
... I KNOW YOU WILL DO A GOOD JOB AND THAT YOU WILL PROVE TO A LOT OF OLD FASHIONED DIEHARD HALF MUMMIFIED PROFESSORS AND OTHER SUPPOSED TO BE EDUCATORS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT BY THE USE OF PICTURES AND RADIO YOU CAN RE-EDUCATE MANY MILLIONS. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT...
Somewhere near the Capitol at Frankfort, Olympia, Augusta, Helena, Jefferson City, Salem, Pierre, Tallahassee or any other State capital is generally to be found a low, musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session...