Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan's 7th Avenue who were asked last winter to guess what women would be wearing this fall, Hollywood designers Omar (né Alexander) Kiam, Irene and Helen Taylor turned out most of the dresses, gowns and coats for Vogues of 1938. Manhattan's supersmart John-Frederics and Sally Victor did the hats, Jaeckel the furs. Through the Modern Merchandising Bureau, 52 dresses, 24 hats and various accessories shown in the picture will be on sale in first-class...
...outdone in the slap-the-Administration game, 79-year-old Edward Thomas Taylor's Appropriations Committee presented to the House a third deficiency bill which: 1) knocked out the $20,000,000 Farm Tenancy program: 2) cut the Labor Relations Board's request for $1,800,000 in half; 3) denied the Agriculture Department $500,000 for the Great Plains shelterbelt tree plantings; 4) disapproved an additional $10,000.000 which Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy was seeking for his Maritime Commission. Total intended economies: about 30% of Budget Bureau estimates...
...said later, that during that half he would lead the orchestra. When he arrived at the Dell, however, Iturbi found that Singers Peerce and Monroe were about to go on the air with songs by Gershwin, Victor Herbert, Oley Speaks, Jerome Kern. Frank La Forge, Daniel Wolf, Coleridge Taylor. Conductor Iturbi was not expected to accompany these songs and singers, but his emotional temperature began rising rapidly. He heard Mr. Peerce through two numbers, then strode upon the Dell stage, and began gesticulating at a radio announcer...
...elephant since Phineas Taylor Barnum's Jumbo has had a legitimate claim to the distinction of being more famous than all others of the species. And no world-wide tabulation is kept of ages of elephants, which live to be about 120. But Babe, aged more than 100, may well have been the oldest in captivity. And as for fame, certain it is that she trouped with Jumbo, worked for and outlived Showman Barnum, the Ringlings, and generations of circusgoers...
Purpose of the present committee, financed by a $50,000 grant from the Hays office and manned by such potent schoolmen as Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director Mark May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, is to break this vicious circle by opening the vaults of Hollywood for school use. Four years ago broad-beamed Educator May and Dean Howard Le Sourd of the Boston University Graduate School set out to experiment in this direction by extracting morally helpful episodes from old feature films. Encouraged...