Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People read the magazines primarily for entertainment. There are other important reasons, too-they read to have their ideas confirmed and their emotions ratified, to have their phantasy life stimulated, and to increase their knowledge of the minor sanctions and rituals of society but first of all they want to be amused...
...Hutton & Co. is something of a misnomer, for E. F. Hutton retired in 1922 and now has only a minor financial share in the business. The $10,000,000 firm is dominated now by a younger group, of whom 38-year-old Gerald Loeb is prominent in the Manhattan office and Gordon B. Crary in the Los Angeles office. Between them these two brokers manage to see a good deal of colorful onetime Motor-maker Errett Lobban Cord, who lives in Beverly Hills...
...members' traveling expenses to and from the extra session. 2) $12,000 for salaries of pages. 3) Lending four of the Capitol's gallery of portraits of signers of the Declaration of Independence to the Corcoran Art Gallery for a belated sesquicentennial exhibition. 4) A minor amendment to the Credit Union Act. 5) An extension of the time-limit in which a bridge may be built over the Tennessee River at Sheffield...
Even artists say that Walter Elias Disney is an artist. Some go farther, say that he is a great one. Certainly his works are better known and more widely appreciated than those of any other artist in history. Three weeks ago, his Mickey Mouse created a minor government crisis in Yugoslavia. Last year, as "Miki-san," he was Japan's patron saint. In Russia the works of Disney are appreciated as "social satire," depicting the "capitalist world under the masks of mice and pigs." The late George V, it is said, would not go to a cinema performance unless...
...Side boys who had written Posin', Shoe Shine Boy, Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard it. They put English lyrics to Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, retained the original title, carried it to Harms, their publishers. Harms, delighted with the plaintive, minor tune that sounded like a Hebrew lament in swing time, arranged with J. & J. Kammen Music Co. to split royalties from the English version between Chaplin & Cahn and Secunda & Jacobs...