Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than half the boys and girls who asked for it. In 1937 the fund was severely cut (to $50,000,000). Finicky colleges like Harvard and Yale haughtily kept NYA out because its pay was skimpy. It was criticized for having such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, William Green, Owen D. Young, the late Amelia Earhart on its advisory board...
...Died. Owen Wister, 78, prolific author, grandson of the late great Victorian Actress Fanny Kemble, friend and biographer of Roosevelt I; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Kingstown, R. I. His most famed novel The Virginian (1902), was the product of a western rest cure, sold 1,500,000 copies, gave birth to the phrase: "When you call me that, smile...
...years ago Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, Republican 13-termer, beat Author Owen (The Var mint) Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass, who ran against him as a New Dealer. Last week, Author Johnson announced he was out again for Congress. Mr. Treadway, 70, said he would run again...
...tryouts planned this summer, a few plays written by recognized authors and backed by established producers may outlive the corn crops. Noteworthy rural premieres include Ward Green's Honey at Dennis; Hollywood Be Thy Name (by Myron Fagan, at Cape May); Let's Never Change (by Owen Davis, at Skowhegan); Tomorrow's Sunday (by Philo Higley, at Cohasset); Soubrette (by Jacques Deval, at Ogunquit); Made in Heaven (by Herbert Crocker, at Somerset, Pa.) ; Music at Evening (by Robert Nathan, at White Plains); Dame Nature (by André Birabeau, adapted by Patricia Collinge, at Westport...
Icebound (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue). Owen Davis' 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner in condensed revival...