Word: seven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent precisely ten minutes at City Hall, let the city go to pot. Fortnight ago, with his overdue airport only half-finished, sewers left broken and exposed, some suburbs unpoliced and city water too bad for finicky citizens to drink, Mayor Wilson signed the $112,000,000 budget seven and one-half months after it was due, tearfully handed in his resignation. It was, explained he shakily, to be only temporary...
...start, aged three, in the Yule family vaudeville act, and the two played together in silent comedies when Mickey was billed as Mickey McGuire. Divorced from Mickey's mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey into the films. A good friend of Mickey...
...rubbed elbows with C. I. O.'s James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers were bigwigs from Poland, Sweden and no fewer than seven from Britain, headed by Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had come to address a U. S. audience for the first time. Columbia's Anglophile Nicholas Murray Butler beamed on his visitors, bestowed honorary degrees on four of the Britons (and one on M. Herriot...
...owner: Post-Gazette Publisher Paul Block, once publisher of seven papers, now of four...
...this comes true, the production index can look forward to a rise of only three to seven points compared to a 20-point rise from July to November last year...