Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington stands at Tuskegee. Minstrels sing spirituals. The pageant becomes modern Harlem medley. Irene Castle McLaughlin explains her old-time dances, the "Bunny Hug," the "Hesitation," the ''Maxine." A chorus dances them. Orchestra Leader Noble Sissle recalls the War with his ''On Patrol in No Man's Land." Bill Robinson does a tap dance, brings down the house, encores again and again. W. C. Handy leads his "St. Louis Blues." All 5,000 voices break into a tremendous chant...
Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
After a two-day rest-up at his mother's home in Okmulgee, Okla., NRAdministrator Johnson, accompanied by his ubiquitous secretary, Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, swept into Chicago last week to help settle the Stock Yard strike (see p. 9) and make one of his rip-roaring speeches at the Century of Progress. Neatly stacked in his room at the Drake Hotel upon his arrival were copies of the city's four leading newspapers: Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News; William Randolph Hearst's American and Herald & Examiner; Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune. General Johnson did not have...
...Manhattan's Paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, 77, honorary president of the American Museum of Natural History, sailed for Europe with two grand daughters, announcing that he intended to take up the study of music. Frederick Bertrand Robinson, president of the College of the City of New York, who boasts, "I start something new each year," returned from a trip to Europe as a member of the crew of a Norwegian freighter. Said he: "It was the happiest 16 days I ever spent...
...only bookmaker in the East, as Tom Kearney of St. Louis is the only one in the West, to make a winter book on the Kentucky Derby. He owns a stable of six or seven horses, races them in the name of his lawyer John J. Robinson. His headquarters on Broadway are listed as a real-estate office. He began making books in New York in 1906. In 1908 he joined the "Mets" (Metropolitan Turf Association), a bookmakers' union which disbanded when betting was outlawed in New York. He usually rides in an open Rolls Royce. His stool...