Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House. Bert Snell of Potsdam, N. Y. retired last summer as Minority Leader of the House. Almost certain to succeed him is Joseph William Martin Jr. of North Attleboro, Mass. Three things will make his job easier than that of his predecessor...
Louis Pergaud, author of this mild anti-militarist propaganda, was killed at Verdun in 1915. The picture was procured last summer by Mrs. Rand...
Last week on a beautiful Indian Summer afternoon, Composer Krenek's latest opus, a musical pie called Piano Concerto No. 2, was set before Boston's dowagers and debutantes at a Boston Symphony concert in Boston's Symphony Hall. Stocky Ernest Krenek himself sat hungrily up to the piano. Conductor Koussevitzky was ill, so it fell to Concertmaster Richard Burgin to dish it up. When the pie was opened and the bats began to squeak, the audience could hear that Composer Krenek had been true to his atonality, and in his own fashion. A dozen Bostonians...
...writers made their selections: Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red Sox (in the American League), and Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds (in the National). For big-nosed, slow-footed, 220-lb. Catcher Lombardi, who guided Rookie Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer through his two famed no-hit games last summer and outbatted (.342) every other player in the league this season, it was his first taste of fame in eight years of banging around the National League...
...notch). With Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart and Cecil Smith already ranked at ten goals, the U. S. can (and probably will-barring accidents) name a 40-goal team, theoretically the best in the world, to defend the Westchester Cup in the international matches with England next summer. Not since 1925 has the U. S. had such a top-notch four...