Word: ida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of Miss Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company, Freeporters were amazed to see the picture of their Dr. Levingston printed [in July 1905 McClure's] as the father of John D. Rockefeller. Reporters called at the home but the Doctor was old and feeble and he refused to be interviewed...
...great "causes of maternal death," praised Germany's Hitler because he gave the beverage concession at last summer's Olympic Village to the Deutscher Frauenbund der Abstinenz (Nazi W. C. T. U.). is a total abstainer, supports restaurants which serve no beer. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of the W. C. T. U. reassured the delegates "we have no objection to tea and coffee. We do have a . . . program against cigarets." Mrs. James Mabon of Montreal sketched the world-use of intoxicating beverages, said "under present conditions the world over not a single child is safe...
...Ida Lupine, Walter Connolly, and Ralph Bellamy star in the second feature, "Let's Get Married." The plot deals with the love of a politician's (Mr. Connolly) daughter (Miss Lupino) for a weather forecaster (Mr. Bellamy). The whole film depends on the weather and, like the weather, it never rains but it pours...
...born' (in New Haven, 1871) and bred (graduated 1895), he married a New Haven girl, got his first job as editor of the New Haven Morning News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life...
...Time, whose February issue contained a salute to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band as the organization whence swing music sprang full-born, was stating a belief also widely held by jazz reactionaries, academicians and purists. Most of "Red" Nichols' recordings during his great period in 1922-28 (Ida, Back Beats, Alice Blue Gown) are available on re-issued Brunswick records...