Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WPAsters in Kentucky's 32 western counties had been carefully listed so as to show the names and addresses of all legal voters in their families. This work was done by WPA workers on WPA time but on stationery supplied by Senator Barkley's headquarters. The lists were handed to Mr. Barkley's campaign managers in the 32 counties. Later most of the lists were burned...
...CROSBY AND MR. MERCER (Decca,). Last June, when the genial Westwood Marching and Chowder Club (North Hollywood Branch) put on its second Breakaway Minstrel Show, the Olio was enlivened by " 'Lasses' (Molasses) Mercer and 'Chittlins' (pig or calf intestines) Crosby in an erudite analyseration of swing." The "analyseration" was sung to the music of the 1920's famed duet Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, new words by Lyricist Mercer (Cowboy From Brooklyn, et al.). The summer's most amusing ditty gets more amusing when Crosby explains to Mercer that jazz is merely old-fashioned...
Josephine Hancock Logan, who is pleased to be the donor of the annual Logan prize to Chicago's Art Institute but does not like the modernist quality of recent prizewinning paintings, engineered a rival exhibition of pictures to show "Sanity in Art." Among her placid lady guests and her safe and sane pictures, little old Mrs. Logan wandered, smiling brightly...
Suspicious bankers last week still could get no satisfactory explanation for the change from the reserved Reserve, wondered what New Deal financial shenanigans it might foretell. But Reserve officials pooh-poohed such fears, insisted they had discontinued the tabulation because it proved an unsatisfactory way to show the purpose of loans...
...Cracked down upon Minneapolis Commodity Broker S. W. Gongoll and eight affiliated companies. Charging him with falsely reporting his position in commodities as required by the Commodity Exchange Act, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace ordered him to show cause why he and his firms should not be refused trading privileges...