Word: local
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm of (Carl J.) Bard & (J. Victor) Vanderbilt came forward with a design that Father Troy recognized as his nightmare...
...legislative chamber in Madison one day last fortnight, the Wisconsin Senate rose to its 62 feet to listen to the opening prayer. For this prayer the Senate pays $3 every day to a local or visiting minister; that day it got more than its $3 worth. Prayed Rev. Allen Eddy of Madison's Plymouth Congregational Church...
...attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief entertainer when Franklin Roosevelt dropped by, been sponsor to many a local sporting event. In his largest role, Gene Howe is known to his Amarillo readers as Old Tack, the generous, convivial, duck-hunting, dog-finding, golf-playing conductor of a column of chatter called "The Tactless Texan." Last week, beneath the smudgy picture of cross-eyed Ben Turpin which daily tops...
Second Fiddle displays Sonja as Trudi Hovland, a schoolmarm of Bergen, Minn. who is called to Hollywood because her local swain has sent her photograph to Consolidated Pictures Corp., which has been looking high & low for just such a heroine.* Jimmy Suttou (Tyrone Power), the pressagent sent to Bergen to fetch her, at first treats her merely as Entry No. 436. He agrees that she has no chance for the part but talks her into flying to Hollywood for the trip, with her Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although...
...years fiscal experts of every U.S. administration have advocated ending the tax exemption of Federal. State and municipal securities. Reasons: 1) it would close an avenue of surtax escape to the rich, 2) would halt the diversion of capital from productive private enterprise, 3) would discourage extravagant borrowing by local governments. But to New York City's peppery little Mayor LaGuardia, head of the U. S. Conference of Mayors, the whole idea is ugly...