Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wisconsin's Francis Ryan Duffy, an Administration man, has received an unmistakable White House pat, almost as broad as the endorsement of Son-Secretary James Roosevelt which helped boost Florida's Claude Pepper to victory month ago. Meantime two States where Gardener Roosevelt has been busy went to the polls...
...popular Left-wing leader of the Falange Española, the blue-shirted group of some 1,000,000 members, officially recognized as an instrument of the State much like Il Duce's Fascists. To a group of these in a Burgos theatre, General Juan Yague last month announced: "Our leader [General Franco] has said that no home shall lack bread and fuel. He is a man of his word. Social justice there will be. The only question is how generous it will be. If a man fighting for Spain, although himself possessing nothing to defend, returns home without...
...fact that he has little control over the welfare and fortunes of his famed five daughters, Yvonne, Emilie, Annette, Marie and Cecile. The Ontario Provincial Government has never been seriously concerned over the other seven living Dionne young, but has kept the Quintuplets in separate, guarded quarters. Last month Papa Dionne demanded a general inquiry by the Ontario Government into the handling of the Quintuplets' affairs by strong-willed Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Judge J. A. Valin and Percy D. Wilson, his fellow members on the board of guardians. Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn flatly turned down Papa Dionne...
...permitted; swing music has been publicly damned. But records by Josephine Baker, Guy Lombardo. Victor Young, Benny Goodman, Leo Reisman are still selling in Germany, as are the sheet-music compositions of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. And British-born "sweet" Jazzband Leader Jack Hylton recently finished a two-month engagement at one of Berlin's variety show houses...
Fact is that, though they can find plenty of substitutes for blacklisted symphonies and operas, Nazis on dancing bent hardly know which way to turn. Last month an article in Die Spielschar, organ of the Hitler Youth Movement, moped long and heavily over this question. Die Spielschar agreed that the motions prescribed by swing are unworthy of a sober man, but protested that rump-slapping peasant dances were equally inappropriate for sophisticated Germans. With these two categories of dancing verboten, there would be nothing left but waltzes. "For those who seek a way to graceful and natural German dancing," sighed...