Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innovating President followed up this gesture by legally instituting a new festival known as Communications Day. His notion of celebrating it was to cancel all public communications by giving telephone, telegraph and postal workers a holiday...
Last week, Edward Ballard, retired, had a son a senior at Yale, a daughter in the Bennett finishing school (Millbrook, N. Y.), and he and his wife were enjoying their usual autumn holiday at Hot Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract...
...Louisiana, voters approved 34 constitutional amendments including permission for State legislators to raise their own salaries, and designation of the late Huey Long's birthday as a legal holiday...
...Look Now (by John Crump; Gustav Blum, producer). Author Crump's last effort produced on Broadway was a play called Hipper's Holiday, which lasted four performances. Having doubtless observed that Once in a Lifetime, Twentieth Century, Personal Appearance and Boy Meets Girl, which dealt laughably with the foibles of Hollywood, were well received, Mr. Crump has written a play about a heavily-accented cinemagnate who gets into great and voluble trouble because his blonde star skips out in the middle of a picture, leaving him with a "nut" (overhead...
Unlike those in many other U. S. communities, the public schools of Springfield, Ohio were open on Election Day. But those of the 68,000 citizens of Springfield who went to the polls had to decide whether Springfield's 12,000 school children should have a much longer holiday. Up for a vote was a proposed three-mill property levy to raise $240,000 a year to keep the penniless city schools open for the winter. Springfield voted the levy down 2-to-1. Sure enough the schools, out of operating funds and already owing $66,000 in back...