Word: mcnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in slummy Mulberry Bend, orphaned at seven, a runaway (from Father Drunogie's orphanage) in his 'teens, Joe Howard had been on the boards for 60 years. His runaway took him to St. Louis where, still in short pants, he got a job with McNish, Johnson & Slavin's Refined Minstrels, singing A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother. This job was the making of him. He became a protege of the late, bully-built William Muldoon (later T.R.'s sparring partner), who was then touring the minstrel circuit with Charley Mitchell, the little...
Radio programs faded last week. Long-distance telephone conversations gurgled. Telegrams stuttered along the wires. Ships' compasses jiggled. And the Northern Lights flapped like curtains in a storm. It all reflected, said Dr. A. G. McNish, authority on the earth's magnetism, in Washington last week for a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the worst magnetic storm in a century. This in turn was due to a great magnetic storm which swept across the face of the sun four days earlier and sent a gust of electric corpuscles toward the earth at 270 mi. per sec. Such...
...high standard set by Miss Peterson; and to say this is to pay them no mean compliment. As always at the Plymouth the sets are excellent. Thora Donelle Marjorie Peterson Warren Pascal Brian Donlevy Catharine Pellett Helen Brooks Homer Pellett Louis Jean Heydt Eva Mordecai Ollie Burgoyne Janice McNish June Martel Hans Patt Carl Johan