Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the inveterate moviegoer must resign himself to stereotyped plots, he always has a sneaking hope that some performance will be worth the price of admission. Unfortunately, the musical voice of Kay Francis is too small a weapon to struggle against the tawdry and tune worn story if "Mandalay" which...
In Philadelphia two months ago a great outcry followed Leopold Stokowski's announcement that at the next Youths' Concert he would play Soviet Russia's ''Internationale." The American Legion publicly protested. Broker Francis Ralston Welsh, rabid antiCommunist, called Stokowski a Red. William Curtis Bok, the...
When, in August 1932, Frank Aloysius Tichenor hired Alfred Emanuel Smith at a fancy figure to edit his New Outlook, it was not because he valued Citizen Smith's untested talents as a journalist, but because he knew that anything Al Smith said or wrote would be important news...
By law the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency is required to call for reports on the condition of all national banks at least three times a year. Until 1931, when every call became a banking nightmare, the Comptroller's call went out regularly at the end of each...
At the 21st annual international flower show in Manhattan J. Pierpont Morgan won a gold medal for his tropical Kalanchoe globulifera coccinea; Mr & Mrs. Marshall Field, first prizes for their mignonettes, larkspur, stock: Mrs. Cornelius Francis Kelley, a first with twelve white Antirrhinum spikes.