Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a microphone on his Bromo Quinine hour: "It is such a tissue of libel that the father of lies will have to move over on his throne when the spook of that author arrives. Moreover, it is the frankest kind of Communist propaganda." The General has a standing offer to allow any person attacked in his nightly talks to make a rebuttal on his radio time. Last week at the suggestion of the publisher, Vanguard Press, and with the approval of NBC and the program's sponsors, the General turned his Bromo Quinine hour over to Author Lundberg...
...Does the baby bother you when you're trying to get the morning's work done? A neighbor down on Oregon Road writes to offer this remedy: Dab a little molasses on baby's hands, set him on the middle of the kitchen floor, and give him a couple of fluffy feathers to play with." For more serious problems, "Aunt Polly" is willing to square away for as much as two pages in reply to such a letter as this recent typical...
...Also played was the celebrated set piece Sing, Sing, Sing, notable for demoniac Gfene Krupa's imperious drum beat and Teddy Wilson's rippling piano. But the event of the evening was the "jam session," effacingly noted as "no doubt the greatest contradiction a swing program could offer," but in effect a blaring success. Amiable Mr. Goodman seated himself in his reed section, his professional spectacles gleaming, and Count Basic began thumping a blues on the piano. For two or three choruses it looked as though the boys were not going to get off. Then the afflatus descended...
...indicated that it should be the job of the college to discover promising students in high schools and offer them scholarships sufficient to cover their financial needs. If resources of the university are not strong enough to do this, the expense should be paid by taxation, declared the educator...
...suits if it did. President Roosevelt in press conference took occasion to criticize the C. & O. stand. Jesse Jones, eying C. & O. and its holding company, Alleghany Corp.. with the suspicion that Van Sweringen holding companies have often merited in the past, had two other explanations to offer. Said he first: "The only thing I can assume is that they want to see the Erie go into receivership and come out of it with...