Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veteran Producer William A. Brady-husband of Actress Grace George, father of Actress Alice Brady-last week announced the formation of a permanent Manhattan stock company reminiscent of the age of Frohman, Daly, Wallack. Plays new & old will be presented each season at intervals of six weeks. First play, opening late this month: G. B. Shaw's You Never Can Tell...
...Bone philosophy was formed by a lifetime of fighting the interests, only lately has begun to pay political dividends. His father was a disabled Civil War veteran who married his mother after her first husband had been killed at Gettysburg...
...Business School is always a good customer, particularly noticeable since of necessity the boys across the river get their liquor by delivery instead of on a cash and carry basis. "Freshmen? They don't bother us much," said one veteran dealer...
...choice presented to Harvard voters by the Massachusetts gubernatorial race should be obvious from the fact that Mr. Curley is a veteran political buccaneer and Mr. Saltonstall is not. Election of the latter will mean not so much a victory for reaction as one for clean government, and in view of the Tammany, Hague, and other primitive organizations it is worth arguing that clean rule must precede progressive rule. In this campaign, victory in which lies with the independent voters, integrity--not progressivism--is the issue. Although perhaps not enough independent of State Street, Mr. Saltonstall is honest and sound...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...