Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May Songwriters Lee David & John Redmond.'who do the scores for Harlem's Cotton Club, completed a Big Apple song for Exclusive Publications, an enterprise of energetic Irving Mills. Originally intended for the Cotton Club, the song was released when the dance became popular sold 12,500 copies. Last month Songwriters Buddy Bernier & Bob Emmerich also did a Big Apple song, which sold 12,000 copies in the first ten days after Crawford Music Corp. published it. The Bernier-Emmerich tune reached the radio first and as recorded by Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra...
...Brien, who also made fortunes in Nevada. George Wingfield did not emigrate to another State. Presently he owned twelve banks, a chain of gambling halls, many mines, a string of race horses and two Reno hotels, the Riverside and Golden. Potent in State politics, he became popular by his generosity in grubstaking ranchers and prospectors. He was known as "King George...
Last week government ownership of railways finally went completely into effect in France when the Popular Front Government took over control of six private roads, merged them with two other lines the nation already operated. Since 1931 France has underwritten some $1,050,000,000 annually in losses for these six private systems. In the future the government will hold 51% of the new capitalization, including a $1,046,000,000 assessment for the private lines, and private shareholders will have virtually no say in their operation...
Blony is not the only nor the original bubble gum, but for eight years it has been the most popular, and comprises at least 60% of that delicacy now sold in the U. S. It is concocted in Philadelphia by Gum, Inc., which occupies five floors and the basement of a building on Woodland Avenue. The Blony process and Gum, Inc., are both creations of one of Philadelphia's lustiest characters, burly, brown-eyed Jacob Warren Bowman, whose business adventures have been many and remarkable...
Wellsians have frequently exclaimed that the world lost a satirist when Author Wells turned popular pamphleteer. In Brynhild he gives them further matter for exclamation, in such thumbnail flicks as these: "His normal expression was one of patient self-confidence, varied by lapses into great mobility when he was exercised by a business suggestion or anxious to be effective. Then he gesticulated, brought his face nearer to his interlocutor and spat slightly as he became emphatic. Finally he would wipe himself up so to speak and become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew...