Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that cruise. McCormick bet Cochran that he would meet Walska first. He lost. But when he got back to his Lake Shore home in Chicago it was announced that he and Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick were no longer living together. Alex Cochran and Walska lived briefly together in his Murray Hill home. Then in 1920 divorce proceedings started. Madame Walska, with Dudley Field Malone for her lawyer, issued a statement that ''if he [Cochran] wants to get rid of me he must pay until it hurts for his own good...
...Oklahoma's biggest political figures, Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, is, however, no friend of Elmer Thomas...
...city for four years. He felt that a simple reopening of the budget by the Legislature was all that was now needed. As to charter reform, he had already, in his annual message, recommended a charter commission composed of Alfred E. Smith, onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To the Governor's proposals Mayor LaGuardia had a ready reply, which he delivered two days later with good humor but with equal vehemence: "It is difficult to find a distinction between the conditions of [the bankers'] agreement and any equity receivership...
Ziegfeld Follies (presented by Mrs. Florenz ["Billie Burke"] Ziegfeld; staged by Bobby Connolly and John Murray Anderson; settings by Watson Barratt and Albert R. Johnson; songs by Billy Rose, Vernon Duke, Samuel Pokrass and Dana Suesse). Florenz Ziegfeld spent only $13,000 on his first Follies in 1907. Critic Percy Hammond called it a "loud and leering orgy of indelicacy and suggestiveness." A huge success, it began a tradition for gorgeous extravaganzas. Every year, with a mounting disdain of money, Ziegfeld put on a new edition of his Follies. After 1910 all but one opened in Manhattan...
...John Murray Anderson's Ziegfeld Follies is fast and funny. It remembers Ziegfeld only in title and opulent manner. It has magnificent sets: Fifth Avenue from a bustop, a store window, a huge smear of prairie with phantom cowboys and dogies.* It has Fanny Brice and little, shrugging Willie Howard with his brother Eugene, comedians of, by and for Broadway. It has beauteous Jane Froman and commanding Everett Marshall to sing. It has a pair of Astaire-like dancers in Vilma and Buddy Ebsen. It has an incredible acrobatic child named June Preisser. It has good songs: "Suddenly," "Moon...