Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the most urban of all U. S. industries lifted its eyes from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to the U. S. District Court in Boston and settled familiarly into a contentious mood. On one side was the Fashion Originators' Guild of America, founded three years ago to stamp out style piracy and now the principal prop of highgrade dressmaking. On the other side was Wm. Filene's Sons Co., famed Boston department store, which had brought suit charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Back of Filene's stood Associated Merchandising Corp., largest co-operative buying...
Heidelberg terms the occasion the 550th birthday of the University, but according to "Nature", authoritative British scientific journal, this spring will not be the 550 anniversary but the 549th. "Nature" bases its calculations on the charter in the British Museum, which was issued by Pope Urban VI on October 23, 1385. Unless this original source is misleading, the celebration will be one year less than the five and a half century mark...
Insurance ("The Dole") to include agricultural workers by passing through second reading a bill under which jobless farmhands, previously denied any dole, would receive a dole considerably less than that of the urban proletariat. Labor M.P.'s demanded dole "equality for farmhands" but finally abstained and the vote...
...simplicity of Bank Night makes all the more remarkable the way in which it has functioned, not merely to the advantage of theatre owners, but also to that of its shrewd young promoters. Charles Urban Yaeger devised Bank Night when he was assistant to Frank Henry ("Rick") Ricketson, Rocky Mountain division manager of Fox Theatres, as a means of increasing patronage. It worked so much better than Amateur Night, free radios and the like, which cinema exhibitors have been foisting on their patrons ever since the industry began, that Promoter Yaeger soon resigned from Fox, copyrighted Bank Night and organized...
...Muriel Rukeyser was born in New York, attended Vassar, Columbia and the Roosevelt School of the Air, where she gathered material for the title poem in Theory of Flight. In his preface. Stephen Vincent Benet describes her as essentially an urban poet, her mind "fed on the quick jerk of the newsreel, the hard lights in the sky, the long deserted night-street, the take-off of the plane from the ground." The book contains 15 ''Poems Out of Childhood," the long "Theory of Flight," 14 short pieces that range from glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque...