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Word: phonographers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administrative (but not judicial) authority elsewhere in the county. A look in the statute books corroborated his belief. When Chicago newspapers gleefully gave him free advertising by describing how a $10 bill would buy a $3 license, a $5 medical examination, and a $2 Mandell ceremony complete with phonograph music and a flowery certificate, authorities sharply cautioned Mr. Mandell against making any such combination offer, drew from Lawyer Mandell an indignant denial that he had done so. Only assurance Chicago had that Justice of the Peace Mandell would not be followed into the city by his 150 or so suburban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Wandering J. P. | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Brookline who resigned from last year's Freshman class in the middle of the year, left Cambridge on Tuesday, November 16. The trailer in which they are to live until they find better quarters in Hollywood is equipped with running water, two double beds, a library and a radio-phonograph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2 STUDENTS HEAD FOR HOLLYWOOD IN TRAILER | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

...Last September, still trouping but almost forgotten by the U. S. public, which has in the past three years taken to hot music with an intensity surpassing even the mania of the late 1920's, Bessie Smith died after a motor accident in Clarksdale, Miss. Last week Columbia Phonograph Co. issued a Bessie Smith Album, containing re-pressings of six of the 80-odd records she made between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bessie's Blues | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...from Manhattan last September with St. Lucy attached to their Ford. St. Lucy is 23 feet long, contains living quarters forward, and in the rear, a confessional, a chapel with a folding altar, which can be opened for outdoor meetings. There is space in the trailer for phonograph records, sound film equipment, a public-address system. By last week Fathers Cunningham and Halloran were well accustomed to parking St. Lucy in likely spots, playing phonograph records to attract a crowd and then exhibiting about 50 minutes of religious movies with a 20-minute sermon sandwiched between. Said Father Cunningham before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trailer Fathers | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph, John A. Hartford of A. & P., Motorman Walter P. Chrysler. Oilman J. Paul Getty. For a fee of $50 a month these notables contracted to have the best of the world's music on tap in their homes (without aid of radio or phonograph) just as they have hot water or electricity. This music will come over telephone lines by a special process of Muzak Corp., a little-known company headed by a famed figure of "new era" finance-Waddill Catchings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Muzak Music | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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