Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free, white & 21, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Within a few months I must leave the Corps, when my service time-limit expires. ... I am a cartoonist ; naturally my work speaks louder than my words [see...
Many of the Congressional guests were visiting the White House for the first time that night. Many of them were to give Franklin Roosevelt a rough reception the very next evening when the 76th Congress chopped $150,000,000 off their host's Relief Bill (see...
Instead, every day from the Bijur kitchen ten to 15 Ibs. of meat, seven to ten Ibs. of butter, 18 to 20 loaves of bread have gone to nourish the strikers. The servants do most of the labor, Mrs. Bijur sometimes helps (see cut). To protest the banking department's failure to rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined...
...women's five sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder in the holdup of a Manhattan gambling house.* When Governor Lehman had heard all, he solemnly shook the mothers' hands, took a last look into their five anxious faces (see cut), promised to ponder his decision...
...students trying to survive the mad, forced gaiety of examination period, the silver screen is currently offering several morsels well worth the seeing. Locally, Shirley, Temple turns in a creditable performance which should boost her stock in undergraduate eyes. Although this department can see no relevance whatever in the title, "Just Around the Corner" gives audiences at the University Theatre eighty minutes of diverting plot and catchy songs, of which the catchiest is "I Like to Walk in the Rain." Amanda Duff enables Charles Farrell to make a dignified come-back, with the nimble feet of Bill Robinson...