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Exactly 90 minutes before the kickoff, assuming good visibility and good passing conditions, a large bite will be taken out of Old Sol, although the astronomers promised no detectable loss of light for those anxious to anticipate evening conditions...
...Representative Sol Bloom, 76, son of poor Polish immigrants, former showman, lyrics writer, theater owner, real-estate operator, who entered Tammany politics after he had successfully retired at 50. At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, when he was 23, he was the concessionaire who introduced the "Dance of All Nations" and the "Hootchy-Kootchy." ¶Charles Aubrey Eaton, 78, a Baptist minister from Nova Scotia who combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell...
...school children. His zealous financial pruning stopped, however, when he cast a ballot for the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities inquisition. Knutson, who might assume leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, did his best for democracy in withdrawing during the vote on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. Energetic Sol Bloom, a perfect picture of a legislator, would turn over his chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the event of a Republican victory to Charles Eaton whose action in the field of foreign affairs extends to support of a measure authorizing the use of UNRRA funds as a political...
These were key spots. The Republicans who would move into them were perhaps no better and no worse than such present Democratic committee chairman as Andy May, Sol Bloom, Muley Doughton, et al. Committee chairmen all get there the same way-by seniority, which brings experience* but not necessarily ability...
...artistic odds might be all with Ballet Theater, but canny Sol Hurok was not worrying. The name Hurok in combination with Metropolitan Opera House is still box office. Hurok's old-fashioned Ballet Russe was drawing crowds twice as big as its rival...