Word: marsh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bust of Thomas Edison which is now on exhibit at Jordan Marsh Company and a symbolic painting of the great figures of antiquity returning to review modern civilization, which toured Europe and won many highly prized awards for Mr. Russell, are among his better known works. The bust of Edison represents the work of a year that Mr. Russell spent at Edison's laboratory. It was rarely that a sitting as long as ten minutes could be obtained yet this work stands as the classic representation of the great inventor...
...tree; a lion killing a native boy in a scene which (if not faked) is one of the grimmest ever judged fit for public release; a strange kind of antelope called the illampa jumping 40 ft. through the air in slow motion; flamingoes goose-stepping through a marsh. Most of the other episodes, though fairly interesting, are stencils. The incidental sound effects are supposed to have been recorded in Africa but they are not convincing enough to mitigate the suspicion that they were put in later, in Hollywood. Explorer Paul L. Hoefler made the picture in 1929. His conversations...
Nebraska's primary occurs Aug. 12. Seeking the Republican nomination as State Auditor are C. A. Marsh and George W. Marsh, while Frank Marsh wants renomination as Secretary of State. Also out for the State auditorship on the same ballot are L. B. Johnson, Fred H. Johnson, Fred Johnson. Fred E. Ericson and Charles E. Ericson are Republican candi- dates for State Treasurer. John Curtis seeks to succeed John E. Curtiss as chair-man of the Railway Commission. In Omaha Robert Smith, to be renominated as clerk of the district court, must defeat Robert L. Smith...
...Norris for the Senatorial nomination. One Norris is the oldtime insurgent U. S. Senator. The other is a clerk in a chain grocery store at Broken Bow. Nebraska law required nominating petitions to be filed on or before July 3. Grocer Norris' petition arrived July 5. Secretary of State Marsh accepted it on the ground that it was in the mails on July...
William J. Marsh Sr., an antique dealer, acquired for 50¢ an old-fashioned printing press, gave it to his son. In a foreword to Our President: Herbert Hoover, the boy explains that as a job printer "I done a real good business" but there appeared to be "more money in the publishing business...