Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployment benefits since the program started operation. But for old folks, Social Security, which will not begin paying monthly old-age insurance benefits for those over 65 until 1942, is still pie in the sky. The business of the witnesses before the Doughton committee was to show how the pie could be brought down within reach without wrecking the nation's economic structure...
Ways & Means' old Chairman Doughton, his spectacles quizzically pushed up on his forehead, presided over as rowdy a show as he has seen in his 28 years in Congress. The hearing room was jammed with Townsendites and other pension peddlers, for on the committee's schedule was no less a witness than Physician Francis E. Townsend himself. Far more unruly, however, were Congressmen anxious to outdo one another in doing for the old folks. Massachusetts' broadbeamed Republican Allen Treadway, whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when...
...special train provided by the President for a ten day visit during which he will exchange neighborhood gossip with Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, talk shop with Mexico's military chiefs. Conscious that the eyes of Washington were upon him to be sure he did not show too much interest in radical Mexico's expropriation stunts or in her barter deals with fascist countries, Colonel Batista lost no time in seeing U. S. press correspondents, reassuring them that Cuba is "not going Communist, nor Fascist, nor Nazi. We are progressives." The Colonel recently had his bread buttered...
...After playing lying, lecherous, dirty Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road for 1,674 shows, James Barton announced he would quit the show this week. Rumored reason: squabbles with other members of the cast. Successor: Vaudeville Impersonator Eddie Garr...
...Tuesday, February 14, the Hasty Pudding Club's annual show goes into rehearsal stage. The musical comedy is cast against a background of the World's Fair, with no title as yet chosen...