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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a seat beside U. G. I. Chairman John Edward Zimmerman and U. G. I. Vice President Conrad N. Lauer (see cut), Mayor Wilson rose to repeat his 50? gas campaign pledge. Looking directly at Chairman Zimmerman, he remarked sweetly: "You are efficient, and I'd prefer to see you continue rather than have another company come in and offer us more favorable terms, say 30? or 40? gas." Ten days later he filed suit against U. G. I. and the Municipal Gas Commission demanding the "return...
...night go-odd years ago, a group of wild young rapscallions broke into a Masonic temple in Cayuga County, N. Y., put on the ceremonial robes and organized a mock secret society. One of these young limbs was an eloquent, enterprising Union College graduate named Lewis Henry Morgan. A crusading teetotaler but a hard smoker and poker player who had leisure for such japes because hard times kept him from practicing law, Morgan became secretary of the burlesque secret society, turned it into a serious organization called The New Confederacy of the Iroquois. To work up authentic initiation ceremonies...
...straitlaced, churchgoing U. S. businessman, withal a radical hero. Friedrich Engels, after reading Morgan's studies of primitive man, corrected The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels drew on Morgan's findings on primitive family relationships in writing The Origin of the Family. Meanwhile, Morgan settled in Rochester, N. Y., married a cousin, became a director in railway & mining companies and piled up $100,000 before he died in 1881. He was elected State senator in 1867, but his legislative career was notable only for his attempt to block an investigation of the gigantic Erie Railroad swindle...
...Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll (Amos 'n' Andy) last week made their 2,750th and last 15-minute broadcast for Pepsodent Tooth Paste, which since 1929 had paid them well over $200,000 a year for writing and acting their droll Negro dramatizations, and paid National Broadcasting Company $1,200.000 last year for radio time consumed. Messrs. Gosden and Correll have been teamed on the air for almost 18 years and theirs is the second oldest national radio program. This week Amos 'n' Andy went to work for Campbell's Soup...
...bloomer (originally the name of a costume consisting of a short skirt and loose trousers gathered around the ankles, later becoming bloomers-), the dictionary says that Mrs. Amelia Bloomer gave it its name, but did not invent it. Explanation: "For some years she edited and published, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., a magazine called The Lily, in which (February, 1851) the new costume appears to have been first mentioned in print...