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...will interrupt his series of lectures, attending a meeting of the Pulitzer Prize Committee in New York. He served with the Red Cross in France during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE WILL LECTURE TONIGHT | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Comedian Finck would suddenly interrupt his patter, shoot his arm up in a burlesque Nazi salute-and then adjust a picture. Deftly, but unmistakably, he would caricature the well-known posturing of top-rank Nazis. Sometimes when he walked off the stage he mimicked gimpy Dr. Joseph Goebbels. For these offenses he has often been in the Nazi doghouse, once in a concentration camp. Last week the Nazi bigwigs finally caught on, and Propaganda Minister Goebbels expelled Actor Finck, a fellow vaudeville actor and a comedy team, "The Three Rulands," from the Reich's Culture Chamber as "desecrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Purged Comedians | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...setting up the body yesterday, President Roosevelt said that the rail wage dispute "now threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive the country of essential transport service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: F.D.R. CHOOSES LANDIS FOR MEDIATION BOARD | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

...Negro championships of the U. S. Thirty-four played for money. 101 for fun. Some carried their own clubs, others paid white caddies $1 a round. All were extremely courteous to the lone white competitor, a local enthusiast named Charles Hlavacek who entered the tournament because he disliked to interrupt his habit of playing daily on the Palos Park course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Negro Open | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...shortening salesman, Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman, has the common touch. He solicits campaign cash in little barrels (passed by smiling Pat, Mike & Molly) labeled "Flour-NOT Pork." As a slogan he uses a line from one of his songs: "Please pass the biscuits, Pappy!" When people interrupt his speeches to ask where Texas will get the money to pay $41,000,000 yearly in old-age pensions, he says to his musicians: "Strike up a tune, boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Flour Salesman | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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