Word: manhattans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a quick crossing made none the less tense because everything had been so quiet, the Queen Mary docked in Manhattan day after Great Britain declared war. Part of the way she had been convoyed by British men-of-war. All the way her ports and windows had remained blackened, her outgoing radio silent. Aboard were $44,000,000 in gold, Banker John Pierpont Morgan, Steelman Myron C. Taylor, Cineman Harry M. Warner, Author Erich Maria Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan...
...headquarters of the three big networks in Manhattan, special news staffs worked 24-hour shifts. At CBS, news-nosy, UP-trained Paul White, radio's first full-time news chief (of CBS's pioneer radio news service in 1933), ran the show in a glisteningly efficient, Hollywood-style newscasting department (four contiguous glass-walled rooms) high above Manhattan's Madison Avenue...
...William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man backfield during the Czech crisis, was in Europe when the current mixup broke out broadcast from London at 1:30 p.m. there on Wednesday, jumped a Clipper, broadcast from Manhattan at 6:30 next night. To spell Kaltenborn, CBS fortnight ago hired grey, smart ex-Timesstar Elmer Davis...
...Guidonian musical scale. Today he is still a broke violinist, but his Sirela dictionaries in six languages have reached (at $2 to $5) 100,000 hands in a dozen or more countries, and his language is the subject of resolute or amused experiment by radio stations from Manhattan to Moscow...
Marriage Revealed. Ernest ("Uncle Ernest") Schelling, 63, gawky, mustachioed U. S. musician who for 16 years has uncled, and conducted, Manhattan's Young People's Concerts; and Helen Huntington ("Peggy") Marshall, 21, niece of Mrs. Vincent Astor; in Berne, Switzerland; August...