Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pittsburgh. Aviators passing over Pittsburgh customarily see that No. 1 U. S. steel city through a grey pall of smoke. Last week for the first time the Smoky City stood out sharp & clear. The fires of its great mills and factories were banked...
...engage in primary rough & tumble with him or even with one another. If primaries selected only uninstructed delegates or delegates pledged to hopeless favorite sons, the Republican candidate would certainly be picked by political horse-trading at the convention. Sure that no dawn-lit face would emerge from a smoke-filled hotel room after midnight, Senator Borah set out to force the issue...
...aviator's outfit Baritone Crawford was frankly out to cater to his audience. He distributed a list of 100 songs, offered to sing any 14 that were most in demand. His repertory was impressively wide, ranging from Brahms lieder to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Three of the loudest requests were for the Toreador's song from Carmen; De Glory Road, now popular because of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a Crawford composition...
...Biblical drama with cheesecloth and false whiskers, they were disappointed. On the Gillespie stage fists flew, guns roared, young lovers embraced, a mortgage was foreclosed, thugs and drunks swore, strikers rioted, a bomb went off and at one point the whole thing seemed about to go up in smoke & flame. The play: Storm-Tossed. Its author: Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, 47, of the Society of Jesus...
...factories, makes dresses retailing from $55 up. Mr. Rentner says the court fight now threatening his Guild is at bottom an effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style piracy regulation in cheaper grades is just a smoke screen. Inflexible throughout the controversy, he last week made the Guild's first conciliatory move, promising: "The Guild will ship goods now on order to Filene's and the R. H. White Co. so that the entire legal proceedings in Boston may be concentrated on the principles involved...