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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet meeting was broken up last week when the Secretary of the Navy unexpectedly appeared. Seventy-four-year-old Claude Swanson has been confined for the last four months to Washington's Naval Hospital. Hastily the meeting adjourned outdoors where Secretary Swanson sat in the back seat of his open car with President Roosevelt beside him, while other members gathered around to pass the time...
Through Tennessee's remote, mountainous Fentress County runs one modern paved road-the Alvin C. York Memorial Highway. On the highway at Jamestown, the county seat, stands one modern brick building-the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute. Not in the Institute last week was its founder, Fentress County's beefy, red-headed first citizen. He sat in gloomy exile at his farm at Pall Mall, six miles away...
...first time since it opened its doors as a citadel for Society half a century ago. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week abandoned formality, became the scene of an experiment with popular-priced opera. Three dollars bought an orchestra seat that in the winter season sold for $7. Price-range for 1,500 places was from 25? to $1.50. Result was that customers popped up who had never been inside the Metropolitan before. Though the Company's headline singers were gone for the summer, there was a Carmen complete with horses, a Rigoletto and a sprightly...
Harry Locke was shifted from number 2 in the Seconds to take over the seat vacated by Cutler and, judging from his performance yesterday, is capable of swinging the metronome car although he has had no stroke experience...
Three Winthrop House men last week culminated a mild celebration with the sudden resolution to drive down to New York at about one o'clock in the morning. Two of them jumped into the front seat, one into the rumble, and off they went to Boston. The owner, despite his jubilation, had portentous suspicions of a certain soft front tire and decided to purchase a new one before setting out on the lengthy journey. After much scanning and scouring of the streets of Boston, as Fate would have it, nowhere could they discover a tire shop that wasn't closed...