Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Announced for next week was a "Cornfield Conference" of Republicans at the farm of Homer E. Capehart, vice president of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. (musical instruments). Place: Washington, Ind. Theme: winning Midwestern seats in Congress (Republicans have but one out of Indiana's 14, for example). Keynoter: New York's Representative James W. Wadsworth. Expected attendance...
Silvermine Festival (Sun. 8:45 p.m., CBS). New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy, plays Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Johannes Brahm's Variations on a Theme of Haydn at Connecticut's No. 1 music festival. Soloists : Soprano Anna Kaskas, Contralto Rosa Tentoni, Tenor Chase Baromeo, Baritone Edouard Grobe...
Army Girl (Republic). Neatly directed, fast-moving action picture in which the novel theme is conflict between an army inspector (Preston Foster) and an old-line officer (H. B. Warner), engendered by plans to mechanize the latter's cavalry post...
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling was his theme song then, and they called him '"Irish." For one year he was in the S. A. T. C., on the strength of which he has been active ever since in the American Legion. He spent one term at Harvard Law School until his money ran out, finished his law course in 1924 at the University of Kentucky, taking 16 examinations in two days and getting record high marks. He coached athletics at Versailles High School and Centre College, also played summer professional baseball (pitcher) in Canada. He married pretty Mildred Watkins...
Immediately after getting into the State Senate, he began campaigning for Lieutenant Governor. Theme song: Sonny Boy. At the 1931 State convention, he was nominated despite potent opposition by obtaining a last-minute switch of the Louisville delegation. His campaign for Governor began as soon as he started presiding over the Senate. Whenever Governor Ruby Laffoon left the State, Lieutenant Governor Happy played Governor. Among other smart tricks, he made Jim Farley and the late Louis Howe honorary colonels...