Word: sams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the thesis that "Uncle Sam Needs a Wife," finding a thousand flaws in our man-made government, a woman wrote a book.* It was calculated to show how the feminine touch would set things right. One of the chapters was titled, "Wanted-A Female Moses." Ida Clyde Clarke, the writer, found that women needed a leader-one chosen not by men, but by themselves-and proceeded likewise to state what, in her belief, constitutes the inadequacy of certain women leaders of today...
...Boston engagement this week. Miss Dilley will be staying over especially for the College dramatic organization's performances. To do so, she has been kind enough to give up a personal appearance at the opening of a Marcus Loew theatre in Pennsylvania and to postpone a conference with Sam Harris...
...with Sam Harris, he built the Music Box Theatre. The profits of his first revue were $400,000. He owns a house on Long Island, writes his songs in a suite at the Ritz, Atlantic City, spends his winters in Palm Beach. Once he visited the estates of onetime Prince Louis of Battenberg?"on a slumming party...
...proposal in action is very simple, the principle being that of the small boy's allowance. As long as a nation does not fight or play around with rowdy nations, Uncle Sam will give it all the bright shiny pennies and loans and credits that it may want. But should it do anything that might be called naughty Uncle Sam will be severe and not grant it even the most secured dollar's credit. Thus Uncle Sam with his money bags will stand guard over the dove of peace...
This week the demonstrations are being continued. The dramatic story of how Mr. Sam Scribner and his associates of the Columbia Amusement Company fought for two decades against precedent, against hostile managers, against indifferent actors, is being re-told; and now their triumph has been proclaimed...