Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, a retired Naval lieutenant named Ora who was also tired of Des Moines, to accompany her. Brunette and shapely, Heloise got a job as a dancer on Captain Kay Parsons' Show Boat, making nightly excursions on the Hudson River. Within two weeks she left Captain Parsons to join the chorus of Rudy Vallee's Revels of 1935 at the Hollywood Restaurant, a torrid Broadway hot-spot notable for its bare performers, bad air and brusque service...
...Clubs. Accordingly, Dr. Little sought out Mrs- Grace Morrison Poole of Brockton, Mass.; long a prominent clubwoman and president of the Federation in 1932. She was glad to interrupt her work as dean of progressive Stoneleigh College at Rye, N. H., where she trains girls to become businesswomen, to join Dr. Little's crusade. Because she is magnetic and persuasive (Republicans used her to campaign in New Hampshire for Landon), Mrs. Poole has been invaluable in overcoming the not inconsiderable opposition of cancerphobes, getting club leaders to cooperate with leaders of medical societies in sponsoring a forthcoming series...
...Jefferson's four dailies was a sheet with the incomprehensible title of The Jimplecute. Colonel Ward Taylor had founded this paper in 1856 when his city was 20 years old and beginning to ride high. Its name came from the initials of the sheet's motto: "Join Industry Manufacturing Planting Labor Energy Capital in Unity Together Everlastingly." Peak Jimplecute circulation, in the 1880s, was around 5,000. A Greenbacker in a Democratic town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894. The paper was continued by his son Ward and daughter Birdie. Commercially moribund, Jefferson now saw its population shrink...
...many years the statuette has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a loan from Grenville L. Winthrop. Now it has generously been given by him to the Fogg where it will join his other bronze, the imaginary portrait bust of the young Marcus Aurelius...
...left Mr. Reid's New York Tribune to join the World. Mr. Reid considered this an act of disloyalty. At the end of the World in 1931, Ogden Reid did not want F. P. A. back on his paper-now the Herald Tribune-on any terms. But Mrs. Ogden Reid knew the sheet needed a good column and overruled her husband. F. P. A. returned at $25,000 a year, which was later reduced...