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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week's gloomy N. A. D. convention finally closed on a note of cheer, when all 2,000 delegates waved approval of this lyrical resolution: "Whereas, some of our schools for the deaf, which should lead in the preservation and use of the facile, beautiful, expressive Sign Language of the Deaf have on the contrary attempted to abridge or suppress it in favor of an uncertain awkward method of communication known as 'lipreading' and whereas, the educated deaf bear witness overwhelmingly to the truth that the Sign Language and Manual Alphabet are the most practical, convenient...
...Pelham. N. Y.. the street car which was the original of Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's famed Toonerville Trolley made its last trip. For the lugubrious occasion Pelham became Toonerville. Pelham residents whom Cartoonist Fox caricatures in Toonerville Folks acted their parts-Conductor Dave Campion (The Skipper). stopped the car to get a shave, load a passenger on the roof; Commuter Robert A. Cremins (The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang), flew into a pet; Fireman Jack Ehrman (The Powerful Katrinka), pushed a battered auto off the tracks with one hand; Tree-climber William Scharr (Mickey McGuire) set off firecrackers. That...
Because Banker Bickell's passport was in Toronto, Pan American was forced to refuse them. Undismayed, Speculator Smith phoned his great and good friend, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, who assured him that an American Airlines mail plane could pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called his secretary, had a plane chartered to fly the passport there. Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp. The post office was persuaded to scramble through six sacks of air mail to fish it out. Back at the Pan American offices. Operator Smith...
...TIME, Jan. 4). That he would urge national adoption of the record ban was a foregone conclusion at the recent A. F. of M. convention in Louisville (TIME, June 21). Possibly because he felt the time was ripe, possibly because he sensed his own militancy was under question, Joseph N. Weber, national president of the Federation for 37 years, plumped heavily for Petrillo's plan, gave a special committee 30 days to prepare the attack. Last week President Weber called representatives of radio, cinema and record companies to deliberate with A. F. of M. officials in Manhattan, made sure...
...Abie Walbert fon drous hinnich da Lechaw Kerrich drin secht, er gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma fon da picknicks, yusht's dade'n so narafich mocha bis er sie g'frok'd het. Da onner owet hot er aenie hame shnarra wolla fon dons on Shamrock, ow'r in blotz fon sawga 'Darf ich mit d'r hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from...