Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House made known last week Franklin Roosevelt's summer plans, a tentative schedule providing a mixture of politics and ceremony, family and fun. Next week he will attend the wedding of his son John at Nahant, Mass., then successively help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first landing of Swedes in America, at Wilmington, Del.; lay the cornerstone of the Federal building at the New York World's Fair; visit Gettysburg for the Battle's 75th anniversary; go to Marietta, Ohio for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory; go calling in seven...
...South Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass, announced that famed Novelist Sinclair Lewis would make his debut as a professional actor there this summer, playing for a week in July the role of Doremus Jessup in the dramatization of his book, It Can't Happen Here...
Most successful purveyor of mass entertainment is Twentieth Century-Fox, whose net profit last year was $8,617,114. This year a program of 58 features will find the Dionne girls hygienically spotted in a musical to be called Five of a Kind. Other notable projects: Drums Along the Mohawk, the Ritz Brothers as The Three Musketeers, three Shirley Temple, four Jane Withers films, specially designed pictures for Eddie Cantor and Sonja Henie...
...pays $1 to the listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities of the dial system, large numbers of calls often backed up the jam so far that it tied up all the numbers beginning...
Eucharistic Congresses, the mightiest demonstrations of public faith the Christian world affords, demonstrate also the Catholic Church's talent for organized magnificence. Committees in charge take in their stride arrangements for such ceremonies as Budapest's Mass last week for 100,000 children, with presents of candy afterward for every one. Yet the Budapest Congress was not the largest of recent years. Nazi truculence, in the form of special visa restrictions, kept Germans at home, held the number of foreign pilgrims to about 25,000, of whom 1,000 were U. S. Catholics...