Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nine per cent were Negroes segregated in their own camps (as are veterans; Indians usually work in reservation groups, live at home). Application for CCC jobs are cleared by local relief agencies through the U. S. Labor and War Departments. CCC juniors report, on acceptance, at an Army recruiting station, usually go directly to CCCamps, where they find a Reserve lieutenant or captain in command. There they begin group life in uniform. But they find no guardhouse, no drill, no saluting, no punishments that an Army private would respect. CCC scamps may be confined to camp for a few days...
...People's Ratty, selling Mennen's shaving cream, talcum powder, et al. to Sunday afternooners on MBS's nine-station network, is a weekly cross-patter of sense and nonsense run by veteran Commentator John B. (for Bright) Kennedy in a 192-seat theatre 50 stories up in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The nonsense part is a studio audience participation quizz game called "quixie-doodles" conducted by Comic Bob Hawks. Sample: "Could a baseball game end in a 6-6 tie without a man touching first base?" Answer: "Yes, if the game was played between...
Speaking at the City Club in Boston, Hicks was displeased because the program had been arranged so that the part on which he was to speak was not broadcast over Station WAAB. After awhile, a radio listener sent in the question which asked which came first, Communism or Fascism, and is freedom of speech allowed under Communism. Ehrmann remarked that since Hicks had not been heard on the air, it would not be necessary to answer the question...
...sunshiny morning last week a dimpled, strapping radio entertainer and his hillbilly band trooped into a broadcasting station in Austin, Tex., whooped and whanged in the style that has made them the Lone Star State's biggest air attraction. The studio audience of 200 noisily demanded encore after encore. But presently the band and its leader, Flour Salesman W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, had to leave to perform before a crowd of 70,000 that packed the University of Texas stadium...
Lillie did not fail him. Whether bursting into a Fragonard boudoir as Brünnhilde on a white horse, or playing a world-weary actress with only energy enough to scoop up gifts of jewelry with both hands, or wandering around a Siberian railway station disguised as a spy, Lillie had only to cock an eyebrow to cause a commotion, drop a muff to start a riot. The world's coolest and most custom-tailored crackpot, she was never, in her satire, more unerring, implacable, uproarious...