Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellows who got excited over this incident were the radio commentators, who broadcast from Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and a few other points; also the rewrite men and telegraph editors of the big-town papers (your kind of "big town"). The further away the more excited they...
...went abroad last summer to study under Sonja Henie's skating instructor. Behind Miss Peppe came one representative from each of the three oldest U. S. figure-skating centres: Katherine Durbrow of Manhattan, Polly Blodgett of Boston (runner-up to Maribel Vinson last year) and Jane Vaughn of Philadelphia...
Like Father Divine, Daddy Grace has had his troubles with the Law. Four years ago in Brooklyn he was convicted of having violated the Mann Act by taking a 20-year-old pianist to Philadelphia and Washington. Sentenced to a year and a day in jail, Grace got the sentence set aside on appeal. Later he was indicted in Baltimore, charged with defrauding the Government of more than $15,000 in income taxes on nearly $200,000 which he was alleged to have made between 1927 and 1932. The indictment was dropped because courts have held that free-will gifts...
Last week, while John Barbirolli and Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony gave an all-Strauss program, Realist Strauss's most realistic score, the Domestic Symphony, was revived by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Dedicated to Frau Strauss & offspring, the symphony depicts scenes in the Strauss family circle. Philadelphians marveled & chuckled as Papa & Mama Strauss bickered, pleaded and brooded over the upbringing of Offspring Strauss. The argument realistically ended with Papa Strauss banging on the table (the whole brass section) and announcing that he would do pretty much...
...lose Philco Radio and Victor Talking Machine. Grown rich and weary, Mr. Armstrong last week sold out to Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices, a brick mansion at the corner of 16th & Locust Streets which was once the home of the shipbuilding Cramp family, where according to legend when a button is pushed in the art department it still registers a call from "Mrs. Cramp...