Word: grandmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a bit of grandma's lace...
...Saddle." He now shares top place on the mighty Railroad Commission with its once all-powerful Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, who is no slouch on slogans himself. Col. Thompson is gunning for the Governorship, with a plan to tax oil for old-age pensions ("A Nickel a Barrel for Grandma"). Governor O'Daniel, who said he would pass the biscuits to all the old folks when he was Governor, is still trying to get his hands on the dough...
...vaudevillians, night-club entertainers, circus performers and such is the imposingly-named American Federation of Actors. Like other entertainers' unions, the A. F. A. is more or less tied to the apron strings of a mother, the Associated Actors and Artistes of America ("Four A's"). Watchful grandma is the American Federation of Labor. Last week in Manhattan, Mother Four A's had A. F. A. with its pants down ready for a spanking. Grandma stood...
...Chicago, 35 grandmothers and great-grandmothers, aged 33 to 85, staged a revue in blackface, Grandma's Scandals of 1939. Members of the Chicago chapter of the National Grandmothers' Club, the old girls scampered through 16 specialties, from cakewalks to French songs. Said the club's Chicago president: "It's got zip-so much zip that several grandchildren have had the nerve to protest...
Painter Haeberle's two masterpieces, Changes of Time and Grandma's Hearth, were bought by Detroiters at the Detroit Exposition of 1889. After a few years, both ended up in the gentlemen's art gallery of Churchill's Saloon on Woodward Avenue. Changes of Time outlasted Churchill's as a cherished possession of Distiller Marvin Preston. It got its poignancy from the fact that it displayed, in minute detail, almost every form of U. S. currency from 1776 to 1886. Old Mr. Preston would never let it go, even when the late John F. Dodge...