Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fireman, Save my Child" is to be the title of the annual play of the Hasty Pudding Club, it was announced last night by Kendrick Kerns '30 in charge of arrangements for the show. The play, written by G. A. Weller '29, former editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, satirically depicts life in Cambridge about 1750. At that time there existed a strong sense of rivalry between different fire companies as to which would first arrive on the scene of the fire, when one occurred, and enjoy the privilege of extinguishing it. This rivalry was particularly keen between the well-known...
...peasants show a manifest hesitation to trust the Fascist declarations that augmented population is needed as part of Mussolini's intended policy of home colonization. I hear that the peasant population is pressing for a pledge that their children, actual and prospective, will not be used to bolster any policy of military adventure...
Poodles fresh from curl-papers, flat-faced Pekingese, great phlegmatic Danes, almost-forgotten pugs, dappled Dalmatians with no coaches to run under-2,142 dogs, of 78 varieties, competed in Madison Square Garden last week in the Westminster Kennel Club's 53rd annual dog show...
...also board chairman of the Bank of America, National Association, which Bancitaly Corp. dominates. But there was no suggestion that the City Trust's disgrace was a Giannini disgrace, because Dr. Giannini had been connected with the bank for only a few weeks, and because he could show that he accepted the office only on the urgent request of the City Trust's directors. The latter had wished to assuage popular suspicion concerning their bank's solvency by securing a Giannini as chief officer. Finally, Dr. Giannini, who had taken an option on part of the bank...
...stock yard. In November, 1922, when Mr. Saunders was Piggly Wiggly's successful president, Wall Street operators started a bear movement in Piggly Wiggly stock. Angry, Mr. Saunders hastened from his native Memphis to Manhattan. They would sell Piggly short, would they? Well, he'd show them, and he did. He ran Piggly Wiggly stock up from 40 past 120, realized some millions of paper profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors decided that a corner had been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation...