Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stalwarts of the Economy Bloc, whose leader is his old friend Jack...
Jeff Davis died that year in New Orleans. A week later Robert Browning died. Jack the Ripper murdered his eighth victim, and Nellie Ely set sail around the world. The last of Bismarck's dangerously radical social legislation was passed. North and South Dakota, Washington and Montana were admitted...
...home town of St. Mary's, Ohio, at the last moment smeared himself with grease and enacted the part of the prosecuting attorney who sends Frankie to the chair. Such versatility caused Director Howard's friends at Manhattan's Stork Club, whose major-domo Jack Entratter got a policeman's part in the picture, to refer to him as "Noel Howard." Back Door to Heaven being what it is, this crack was no compliment to England's Noel Coward...
...individual matches Bob Graves and Don Elbel won, while Jack Harr, Lou Roewer, Ace Cordingley, and Henry Thompson lost four close battles. In the beat ball, Graves and Cordingley, and Thompson and Elbel defeated their opponents, with Barr and Roewer on the losing...
Star four is the previously mentioned Miss Fitzgerald, who will be backed by Jack Hill's band. The Smoker Committee has been diving in and out of every dance spot in the section trying to find a band good enough to back the notables present. Hill's outfit, from the Little Dixie, definitely fills the bill. Fine rhythm, with excellent brass solos, and a tenor sax man that plays Lester Young (Count Basic) ideas all go to make up a very solid swing style...