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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group from Albuquerque, N. M. sang & danced most precisely, acted out a 16th-century Nativity play called Los Pastores (The Shepherds...
...spent at the President's and Mr. Hopkins' pleasure. The rebels were led by Joe Starnes who demanded that $55,000,000 be earmarked for flood and drought control; Wilburn Cartwright of McAlester, Okla. who demanded $150,000,000 be earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn had the backing of the lobbyists of the steel and cement industries and the American Association of General Contractors. What! cried the earmarking bloc. Billions for beans for the unemployed and not one cent for pork...
...Under President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen, A. F. of L. set up a new Maritime Transportation Department to fight the insurgent new National Maritime Union allied with C. I. O. Meantime the Labor Relations Board held hearings on a petition by Leader James Curran of the N. M. U. for an election on the I. M. M., Luckenbach and Black Diamond lines to determine whether he or Joe Ryan should rule the waves. First action took place in New York Harbor. Curran's seamen sat down on the Munson Liner Munargo until three...
...Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin in flames over Manhattan, its passengers drifting earthward in parachutes (see cut). Working in arty Woodstock, N. Y., Mrs. Lee finished her fantasy long before the Hindenburg disaster. Painting the Manhattan skyline last August, she saw the Hindenburg fly over and imagined how it would look if it exploded...
Addressing the Buffalo Advertising Club, Professor Burges Johnson, chairman of the department of English at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. and onetime editor-in-chief of Judge, declared: "Mark Twain is the alltime, all-America cusser. He could cuss five solid minutes without repeating himself...