Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scandals. Two former Oklahoma City School Board officials were sentenced to prison, Treasurer Ray Scruggs for stealing some $500,000 of school money, Attorney Frank Wilkins (now out on bond while his conviction is appealed) for taking bribes in connection with sale of oil royalties on school property. Last summer a grand jury recommended the ouster of all nine members of Oklahoma City's School Board, charging, among other things, that the board had failed to take sealed competitive bids for extermination of termites infesting a school building. Unflustered by this departure from Oklahoma's normal tolerance...
Having made his debut as a professional actor last summer at Cohasset, Mass, (in It Can't Happen Here), Sinclair Lewis joined Actors' Equity Association to make his Broadway debut next spring (in Angela is Twenty-two). Said he: "This will create a major issue. . . . I'll have to go home and say, 'Darling, I don't know whether you can stand this or not, but I joined the A. F. of L.'* This makes me a reactionary." Then publicity-wise Author-Actor Lewis kissed his sponsor (Helen Hayes), posed for pictures, chortled: "Thank...
When cancer and syphilis were under a general radio muffler, he aired lecture series on both. Last summer station KFI (Los Angeles), also Holliway-managed, lectured parents on their duties, illustrated the need for parental understanding by broadcasting the dramatized story of a 15-year-old girl with an advanced case of gonorrhea...
...committee knew of only 167 U. S. profit-sharing plans, but after a summer of study, it now believes there are as many as 700. First profit-sharer to appear last week was President Richard R. Deupree of Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap). As he took the stand the survey's director set the tenor for the meeting by remarking: "This is not an inquisition, Mr. Deupree. We are glad to have you come to help...
...Hitler," and "Refugees," will leave a sick-bed to speak here, it was learned last night. Stage, screen, and radio comedian, Cantor numbers among his philanthropic projects the founding of the Eddie Cantor Camp Committee, which sends poor city boys to the country for two weeks vacation each summer...