Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although KQV ceased broadcasting out-of-town games early in May, its continued airing of home games forced the ball club last month to lift its ban and allow to its sponsors the games KQV was pirating. In Federal district court, KQV, still brash, explained that it had rented space in a building overlooking the ball park, argued that it had a perfect right to broadcast what it saw from its own property. Promptly the Pirates raised a canvas screen to shut off KQV's knothole. To plug the knothole tight, last week Judge F. P. Schoonmaker ruled that...
Marie Antoinette (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Married at 14 to the fat grandson (Robert Morley) of Louis XV (John Barrymore), Marie Antoinette (Norma Shearer) is bored by court life, with a prince too sluggish to produce an heir. She takes to running about town with the sinister Duc d'Orleans (Joseph Schildkraut), a procedure which leads to a chance meeting with a young Swedish nobleman. Count Axel Fersen (Tyrone Power). Axel and Marie do not hit it off very well at first but a year or two later -just after Marie has made the King angry by calling Madame...
...came on from Washington. Present also was Henry Adams Ickes of the U. S. Housing Authority, who claims no kinship to Harold at all. Doings: prayers, speeches, house-to-house gossiping, the unveiling of a stone marker honoring Nicholas Ickes, twice-married Revolutionary who fathered 20 children, founded the town in 1816. Greatgrandson Harold sent a letter of regrets...
Last week, back from his annual trip to Scandinavia where Scott buys much of its wood pulp, President McCabe told of his amazement when a Finnish pulp man in a small northern town asked him : "Do you believe Jimmy Roosevelt is making as much money out of his insurance business as the Saturday Evening Post says...
...competition with the Government monopoly. In 1905 the Hindus family went to the U. S., rented a couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds properly starts. To Maurice, fresh from Bolshoye Bikovo, where the streets were a quagmire most of the time, where the peasants killed their colts every spring and lived in one-room huts with pigs, chickens and vast swarms of flies, where...