Word: sheas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough beer-hall days through its great era when Italian Singer Tony Pastor purified it, to its death. It is a must book for rememberers of such vaudeville chains as the Keith-Albee, Orpheum, Sylvester Z. Poli, Alexander Pantages, Gus Sun, Sullivan & Considine, Fred Mozart, Kohl & Castle, Mike Shea. Sample items from the past of a passing art form...
Last week Science Service reported Dr. Shea's conclusion that the real incentive was boredom. The fires were exciting-especially when fire fighters arrived...
Socio-psychologist Shea suggested a complicated cure. Since hillbillies do not like recreations foisted on them by outside do-gooders, he would persuade community leaders to build their own recreation centres, with movies, dancing, shooting ranges, horseshoe-pitching grounds, pine sticks for whittling, brass cuspidors...
Nine months ago, thin-faced, two-fisted Oilman Edward L. Shea left the vice-presidency of Tidewater Associated Oil Co. to head a $940,000,000 utility holding company system, Harrison Williams' North American Co. Oilman Shea knew he was moving into a trouble spot. Firecrackers had exploded under North American for nearly two years, and one of the new man's presumptive duties was to stop the noise. But the explosions did not even taper off. Last week they threatened to grow louder...
...would no longer suffice. Its then President James Francis Fogarty first replaced (but kept on salary) Union Electric Officers Egan ($58,000), Boehm ($41,000), and Laun ($16,800). Few months later, all three resigned and two other officers were demoted. Meanwhile, President Fogarty himself moved upstairs, and Ed Shea moved...