Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year when Italy was still at war. And besides ordering a press and newsreel boycott of Britain's Coronation, II Duce let out two other announcements so timed as to be interpreted at Whitehall as "aggressively anti-British," or at the very least, bold gestures by the southern master of the new Axis: 1) Italy's war games will be held this year not on the Austrian front as usual but in Sicily, one of the island bases from which Italy would operate if she were out to control the Mediterranean; 2) Italy's new warboats...
...Southern California's track team: a dual meet with Stanford, 74½-to-56½, in which Southern California's two star pole-vaulters, Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, tied for a new world's record of 14 ft. 8½ in.; at Palo Alto...
...voice of God was that of George Gaul, onetime featured actor on Broadway (Strange Interlude, Seventh Heaven), at 51 exclusively a radio performer. He thundered properly, showing little evidence of what critics once called the "hookworm" manner of his Southern birth. The performance was the first of a series of "Living Dramas of the Bible" put on by Columbia Broadcasting System.* Conceived by Assistant Director of Broadcasts Douglas Coulter, produced by Max Wylie, the first Living Drama was a thoughtful, serene projection of the familiar troubles of Job. Among its actors were two MARCH OF TIME voices and Stefan...
...lurching walk through three or four Pullmans to the diner only to find all the tables taken and a line of people waiting. Last November the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy installed several telephones in one of the streamlined Zephyrs so passengers might telephone the diner to reserve a table. The Southern Pacific's streamlined City of San Francisco has phones used by porters for service only. Last week Southern Pacific revealed that a new City of San Francisco now abuilding will have telephones in every compartment and in dining and observation cars so that passengers can not only call...
...famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport the company back to San Francisco. The note was paid out of profits from the original San Francisco units. Soon the S. P. was transporting Fanchon & Marco's show up and down the west coast, then it was going...