Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puzzled Town Hall clubsters, meeting to discuss "The Business Man and the Arts," Chairman Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., with great unction read a silly telegram from a serious man: ". . . Please extend to all of the [Pulitzer Prize] winners my hearty congratulations . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt." Explanation: The club originally planned to honor the Pulitzer winners, requested a Presidential message, changed its mind without notifying the White House...
...University of Southern California: the 63rd annual Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track meet; for the ninth time in 13 attempts ; making the teams of 29 rival colleges look like Sunday School picnickers; with a total of 711/2 points, highest score in the history of the meet; at Randall's Island, N. Y. Brightest individual star, however, was Pitt's long-striding Negro Johnny Woodruff, who won both the quarter-mile and half-mile for the third year in a row, a feat no one had accomplished since...
...Devil and Daniel Webster, by Douglas Moore and Stephen Vincent Benet. This it followed with an operetta based upon Stephen Foster tunes, Susanna Don't You Cry, which, for all its musical charm and its flashy mounting by Robert Edmond Jones, had a plot which died of Southern molassitude. The Lyric Theatre next put on an evening of dancing by Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Caravan-an uninspired Air and Variations to music by Bach; an arty cigar-store Indian Pocahontas (Elliott Carter Jr.); a rich, loamy piece of Americana, Billy the Kid (Aaron Copland...
...Elected to the presidency of Kansas City Southern Railway was Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch. The road's second largest stockholder, Ozarker Couch succeeds C. E. Johnston, now president of the Western Association of Railway Executives...
...rural dwellers in 1,340 scattered counties, it found that 55% of the counties, with a total population of 8,000,000, had no hospitals. Most of the hospitals in the remaining 45% were small, ill-equipped, seldom used. Greatest hospital need is in rural areas of the 14 Southern States, which have an average of one general hospital bed for every 1,000 citizens. (General U. S. average: 3.3 beds...