Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning this week, Preacher Whitelock planned to pack his wife and belongings in what he calls "the Chassis Church," take to the road for good. After a tour of northern New England the Whitelocks will head for the paradise of trailer folk, Florida. There they will put to full use a technique which has earned them some fame broadcasting as "Uncle Herb and Aunt Ede" over small New England radio stations. Brisk, 50-year-old Uncle Herb preaches the gospel to crowds attracted by Aunt Ede's singing, to her own accompaniment. Says...
...Great Ziegfeld" is the pack in mad magnificence and a great show. M.G.M. determined to memorialize the famous producer in his own lavish style, and the lavishly lushly extravagant sets must have set them back over a million dollars. The movie is a musical review, a biography, and a history of Broadway wound on one reel...
...this episode was reaching its climax, into the Keelung police station marched Lieut. T. A. Pack-Beresford of the British flotilla leader Bruce, to demand the seamen's release. "I have obtained unquestionable proof," he said, "that these sailors paid their taxi fare." Snarled one of the Japanese police officers at Lieut. Pack-Beresford: "You say you're a British officer. We say you're nothing but a drunken sot. Get out of here...
...might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park, Fla., far from where that tormented artist ever thought of traveling. Last week two more neglected literary treasures made their appearance. Both were of modest historical significance, both made interesting reading, both...
...wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later, 1,000 members of the International Seamen's Union pack-jammed Cooper Union, heard their officers refuse to strike. One read a telegram which he said was from Harry Bridges, warning that an Atlantic strike would only delay matters. "Fake! Boo!" yelled the men. "We want Curran!" Insurgent Curran had been barred admission, was waiting outside. Called...