Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coupling the Chicago City Opera Ballet, under the directorship of Ruth Page, with a reference to the change at the Metropolitan Opera, whereby Mr. Romanoff has succeeded Mr. Balanchine as ballet director, you have inadvertently done an injustice to an artistic organization of which Chicago is justifiably proud...
...75th Congress, which was to have helped balance the Budget, last week went home having written its John Hancock boldly across the page of U. S. history. For to the 75th, as to the 73rd five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his word that an Emergency faced the U. S., and the 75th responded to that magic word as the 73rd never dreamed of doing. In 154 days ending last week, the 75th succeeded in appropriating $12,321,635,000, more than any session of Congress has ever appropriated in time of peace. Breakdown of the appropriations...
...always read: divorces-especially of prominent persons. Last week in Waukegan, Ill. a prominent U. S. couple were divorced. Mrs. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, married 1902, separated 1928, divorced her husband, Daily News Publisher Patterson. It was a good story. In the Daily News it appeared in full detail on page two (actually the first news page since the front page is given to pictures...
...inventing, the partners demonstrated their perfected Semagraph in the Manhattan offices of the Associated Press. Seated at an electrically driven typewriter, a girl clicked out a story. The typewriter's type bars carried coded combinations of dots under each character and the "copy" showed these dots. As each page was completed, Inventor Green lovingly inserted it into a Semagraph transmitter. Simultaneously, in the composing room of the Charlotte Observer 611 miles away, a telegraph printer reproduced the copy exactly. This copy, in turn, was fitted into the slots of a Semagraph setter unit attached to an ordinary linotype. With...
...Walter Curtin, who kept a diary. "As I look back on the most enjoyable vacation I ever had," he observes, "it was worth all it cost to have such a wonderful year of silence." Last week, Mr. Curtin, now an Oakland, Calif, businessman, published his diary in a 299-page book which made good reading for its picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young Walter unmoved. "When I came to Alaska," he wrote in his diary, between...