Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer, not a little political capital was made-by Republicans as a warning against change, by Democrats as evidence of bad stewardship-out of a report from the Budget Bureau that fiscal 1929 might show a deficit of 94 millions. President Coolidge now announced that the outlook was for a surplus of some 37 millions. Neither of these figures is very near the $252,540,283 surplus which was estimated for 1929 in the President's Budget message last December. Last week the President explained that the discrepancy was due rather to increased expenditures than to decreased revenues...
...been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been at least privy to the swindle. Incomplete investigation seemed to show that this slur upon the Cognac Tycoon was baseless...
...that opulently festive corner of the earth where Maestro Ziegfeld gathers his bards. . . . The swiftest, most lighthearted, loose-limbed show for miles and years around. . . ."-Gilbert Gabriel, in the American...
With these perfervid paeans the drama-reviewers of Manhattan let it be known that they had caught Whoopee, a cute little musical show, starring Eddie Cantor and exposing to view large portions of Gladys Glad, Olive Brady, and the like...
Sharks and turtle are dead & stuffed, mounted realistically to show museum visitors what roving sea life is like. That exhibit is the best and key of a whole Hall of Fishes of the World, formally opened in the museum last week. Groups represent lake, river and ocean fish life, from trout to rays (flattened sharks). Each scene makes the visitor feel as if he were under water, peering inquisitively...