Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the headline HEAT WAVE STRIKES CITY, Ethel Waters, in a gay and gaudy martinique costume incinerates her audience with a thumping little tune with a haunting Caribbean lilt...
...ticket-taker's head. In surprise, the ticket-taker heaves a handful of coins on the stage. Some roustabouts who have been holding Dave Chasen above a glass tank of water, dive for the coins. Chasen falls into the tank and sounds the last note of the tune with an automobile horn...
...Rand & TIME Sirs: To able Mr. Rand and interesting TIME, praise. ''The March of TIME" brings to me the most exciting half-hour of radio entertainment so my radio set is getting an overhauling for October. I am sure all of TIME readers in this country will tune in every Friday, so incidentally Mr. Rand's Remingtons will...
...Indianapolis carried U. S. Secretary of the Navy Swanson into Havana Harbor, an unknown Cuban fired a pistol at it. And last week the great, grey battleship Mississippi was steaming slowly back & forth off Morro Castle. President Grau San Martin changed the new government's tune. The streets suddenly blossomed with banners: "Down With Yanqui Imperialism!" Col. Batista said: "I will say only that we are now under the Cuban flag...
...Doyle of Commonwealth Edison and Stanley Field of Continental Illinois National Bank. The five-pronged charge was that the Insulls & friends had transferred $2,500,000 from their Corporation Securities Co. between Nov. 2, 1931 and Jan. 20, 1932 when they knew their concern was already insolvent to the tune of $11,000,000 and about to crash. The cash transfers were used to pay preferred dividends, increase collateral, reduce bank debts. Under the 1932 U. S.-Greek treaty, violation of the bankruptcy law is specified as an extraditable offense...