Word: waller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Active command of the world's liveliest newspaper chain changed hands this week with a characteristic minimum of fuss & feathers. Robert Paine Scripps, controlling stockholder of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, announced that William Waller Hawkins was succeeding Roy Wilson Howard as board chairman. For Mr. Hawkins the shift was not only a hard-earned promotion but the fulfillment of a precedent which has become part of U. S. journalistic tradition. For 30 years, as Bill Hawkins and Roy Howard have climbed the publishing ladder, Big Bill has repeatedly helped boost his little friend up a rung, then succeeded...
Died. William Waller Brookhart, 3, grandson of Iowa's onetime Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart; struck by an automobile ; in Washington...
...fact that jazz was once more immensely popular in the land of its birth was illustrated last week not alone by the insane vogue of The Music Goes 'Round And Around. Black pianist Thomas ("Fats") Waller, who can swing with the best of them when he wants to, arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood, gave a "recital" of jazz music 'at a midtown hotel under the auspices of Twentieth Century-Fox, for whom he had just helped make King of Burlesque, and who were anxious to cash in on the notoriety attending the burgeoning jazz movement...
...pansy for Reader Longwell, an orchid to Reader Waller. You may have MY 50? by just saying "when...
Friend Spickler's subscription to TIME is gladly accepted. To the volunteer members of "Friends of TIME.'' hearty thanks for their enthusiastic loyalty. However, TIME, astonished that readers took Subscriber Waller's proposal seriously, cannot permit its friends to shoulder its burdens. All money sent for such purpose is being returned...