Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conventions to listen to educators, but last week 2,000 members of the New York State Vocational Association gathered in Manhattan to listen to businessmen. Their program was entitled: "The Employer Speaks to Vocational Teachers." The convention proved to be unconventional. Most uncommon thing about it was a Mr. Jones, whose views on education, common to many a hardheaded businessman, shocked the 2,000 vocationalists...
...Mr. Mark Jones, president of the Akron Belting Co., likes to tell teachers what is wrong with U. S. education. His theme last week: let the nation's educators dispel some costly national "illusions"; to wit, equality, security, collective bargaining, economic planning, democracy. Said...
...cocky little Don Meade. Reinstated last December by the Florida Racing Commission after a three-year suspension for betting against his own mounts, Jockey Meade, 1933 Kentucky Derby winner, made a sensational comeback this winter, booted home 91 winners at Hialeah and Tropical Park. Last week, while penitent Mr. Meade made headlines because of his successful plea for a riding license on the "big apple" (New York tracks), an obscure fellow-peewee named Johnny Oros quietly displaced him as the leading jockey...
Most audacious of astronomical showmen is James Stokley, director since 1933 of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. Big, stooped Mr. Stokley (rhymes with Annie Oakley) this week arrives in Pittsburgh to become director of the Buhl Institute of Popular Science and Buhl Planetarium (to open this fall...
Birthday. Charles Chaplin, cinemactor. Age: 50. Greetings: from 37 Russian cinema directors, who cabled Mr. Chaplin their appreciation especially of his films Modern Times and City Lights...