Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensational view of Negro voters' future was lately expressed by the Baltimore Sun's bitterly anti-Rooseveltian Pundit Frank R. Kent, who wrote...
When in 1928 Jules Falk, a Philadelphia musician, proposed a summer season of translated opera at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, the Pier's President, Frank Gravatt, was leery of it. But Director Falk went ahead with his plan, put on Pagliacci and one act of Boris Godounoff in English. The double bill, given in one of the gigantic Pier's five theatres, went over so well that opera in English became a permanent feature of Atlantic City's summer-season...
Divorced. Malvina Cynthia Thompson ("Tommy") Scheider, fortyish, secretary and companion of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who recently called her "the person who makes life possible for me"; from Frank J. Scheider, New York public school manual training instructor; under a District of Columbia law which makes five years' voluntary separation grounds for divorce; in Washington...
Decade ago the followers of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, commonly called ''Buchmanites," were mostly youngsters at the age of puberty who were obsessed, or were told that they ought to be obsessed, with personal, private sin. Prime Buchmanite teaching was that such sin could be purged by confession. Today the high command of Buchmanism is more mature, the movement calls itself the Oxford Group,* and its policies have been weaned from...
Intrigued by his barometric sales figures, Nathaniel Leverone took a suggestion from Treasurer Frank Anderson, decided to make a How's Business survey. He set his minions to interviewing officers of 1,500 leading U.S. plants, by last week their questionnaires had been filled-out by some 700. They showed: 1) inventories were subnormal in 64% of plants in the North Atlantic States, 65% in the Southern Atlantic States, 79% in the Middle West, 83% on the Pacific Coast; 2) wages were standing still; 3) business generally was down 30% from August 1937 but up 10% to 25% since...