Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week stepped a new player who, instead of saving up the express ace, played it as his first and only card. He was Philip Henry Philbin Jr., youthful, debonair son of a Colorado hotelman, who learned the aviation business as a $1-a-year assistant to President Harris ("Pop") Hanshue of Western Air Express, later headed Mid-Continent Air Express. Last week he announced Air Express Corp. ready to operate a daily 17 to 18-hr. service between New York and Los Angeles, exclusively for express. First flights...
...Jack Price as one of the most famed news photographers in the East, for 15 years ace of the late great New York World. Since 1927 Jack Price has prospered as a free lance, now occupies a neat studio in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper. There last week, about to pop with excitement, he pored over galley proofs of a book he has written, to be published next month. It is called Be A News Photographer* The book is based on Author Price's theory that, with the new types of compact, lightweight, high-speed cameras, every reporter...
...country lawyer, he was educated at DePauw University where he played baseball, got his A.B. in 1886. Admitted to the Indiana bar next year, he began practice with his father. In 1892 he married Flora Miller who bore him three sons, one daughter. He removed to Rushville (pop. 5,709) in 1893 where he has made his home ever since. He joined the Elks, made lodge speeches and friends, drifted into politics. In 1894 he was first elected to the House of Representatives where with one interruption he served for a dozen years. He learned political strategy under Speaker Joseph...
...argument that America is a two-party country. A Socialist will grant that we have two political organizations, but he fails to see any advantage in this situation when neither of them are concerned with principles he considers paramount. To a man who wants broad, all kinds of soda-pop are equally obnoxious. The bi-partisan system of government is vitiated when both parties have substantially the same conservative platform, as is the case in America. This system has always served to blind the electorate to real issues, and it continues to do that in this election year...
Unfortunately for this idyllic presentation of Japan's puppet state, savage events suddenly began to pop all over Manchukuo last week. One of the most outrageous occurred in Changchun, a few blocks from berobed Minister Hsieh. shortly before he left the Capital...