Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alabama, where Speaker William Bankhead, Senator Lister Hill and Representative Sam Hobbs were unopposed for renomination, last week's major political plum was the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. At week's end it remained on the branch when Major Frank Dixon fell just short of a clear majority against four other candidates. A run-off election will be held June 14. Campaigning for a seat in the House, aging J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who lost a Senate race to Lister Hill last winter, lost again, this time to the incumbent Joe Starnes of Guntersville...
...area, well within Japanese lines, was declared unsafe. At Taiping, between Nanking and Wuhu, Chinese bands infiltrated into the city and fought the small Japanese garrison in the streets. Just north of Shanghai, almost due east of Nanking, at Tungchow, the none-too-modest Japanese communiques claimed their only major success of the week-the de-feat of 10,000 Chinese attempting to cut off this important base from other Japanese-controlled points...
...Only six major-leaguers in the long history of U. S. baseball had attained that niche before Lefty Grove: Walter Johnson (3,497 strikeouts in 21 years), Cy Young (2,836), Christy Mathewson (2,447). Rube Waddell (2,369), Grover Cleveland Alexander (2,184), Dazzy Vance...
...Geddes have made citizens visually speed-conscious, so that now even a refrigerator must look as if it is getting somewhere in a hurry. Up to the end of 1937 a total of 54 streamlined trains had been put on scheduled runs by 17 lines. Last week the two major Eastern lines, New York Central and Pennsylvania, announced that on June 15 they would streamline their crack trains. The Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited will be the first streamliners to run out of Manhattan, will both average a mile a minute, will both...
...Owners Association. Inc. Their targets: Greta Garbo. Marlene Dietrich. Mae West. Joan Crawford, Kay Francis. Katharine Hepburn. Edward Arnold. Fred Astaire. The reason: These highly-publicized great ones were "poison at the box office." "WAKE UP." screamed the theatre owners to Hollywood's producers. "Practically all of the major studios are burdened with stars-whose public appeal is negligible-receiving tremendous salaries . . . Garbo, for instance . . . does not help theatre owners in the U. S. . . . Kay Francis . . . still receiving many-thousands a week ... is now making B pictures. . . . Dietrich, too. is poison at the box office...