Word: ky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waited outside glass doors while Inventor Maxim gesticulated with his glasses. Lecturer Thomas propped print after print on an easel. Editor Williams squinted, argued, paced the floor. Finally the judges emerged, smiling amiably and announced their decision. First prize of $1,000 went to Miss Mabel Graham of Lebanon. Ky. whose Portrait of Margaret, a picture of a laughing little girl in a party dress, clutching a balloon (see cut), had been entered in the national contest by the Louisville Courier-Journal. Louisville newshawks found Miss Graham, a teacher in the Lebanon High School, all warm and pink with excitement...
...fulfill Reader Rothschild's request, TIME let a member of the staff, blindfolded, stick a pin in a U. S. map. The pin pierced the name of Paducah. Ky. TIME then asked Paducah's most eminent citizen, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, to nominate a beneficiary in his town. Result: To Paducah's Riverside Hospital, one year's subscription to TIME. To Reader Rothschild, hearty thanks...
Died. Major-General William Luther Sibert, 75, builder of the Atlantic division of the Panama Canal and of the Gatun Locks, manager of many another important Army engineering job, organizer and director (1918-20) of the Chemical Warfare Service; at his country home near Bowling Green, Ky. Although he quarreled with Goethals and went home before the Canal was finished, Soldier Sibert, unlike Soldier Greely (see below) got his Congressional thanks right away...
...Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Rochester, N. Y., Detroit. St. Louis' symphony attendance has increased more than 50% in the last two seasons. New orchestras have taken firm root in Washington, D. C., Kansas City, Duluth. More concerts will be given in Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Richmond, Syracuse, Louisville, Ky., Asheville, N. C., Lincoln, Neb., Houston, Dallas, Denver, Milwaukee, Seattle, in many another U. S. city. Women have their own orchestras in Chicago, Manhattan, Long Beach, Calif. Chicago businessmen and Detroit physicians play publicly in concerts...
Attorney at Law Frankfort, Ky...