Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Chicago's big commercial Palmer House 1,500 delegates of the Music Teachers National Association and other music bigwigs swarmed last week to spend four days arguing and agreeing, airing big plans and uttering big grievances. U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker urged them to support a proposed $98,000 budget for the new U. S. Department of Music & Fine Arts. The teachers managed to agree, and raised $1,100. They showed less agreement but much more emotion when Leo Fischer, executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, appealed for the Dickstein Bill which...
When a conniving ward leader suggests that Cave abuse his official power, he tosses his visitor's hat out the window and his visitor out the door. Johnny's love life is complicated by the fact that his fiancee (Mae Clarke) is the loyal secretary to the town's worst scalawag (Henry Kolker...
...uneven course of their romance does net require Miss Clarke to function as target for Cagney's grapefruit throwing, as she did in Public Enemy, but the affair is at least brightly controversial. When Johnny catches the ward leader and his fiancee's boss trying to destroy evidence he has collected to show that both of them are grafters, the result is the most satisfying foot-&-fist work shown...
Johnny Cave renders their hulking gorilla (Joseph Sawyer) senseless with one punch, has the ringleader arrested, locks the police captain out of the room while he settles his old score with the ward leader by mopping up the floor with...
...store) when he did so well on a report about the linoleum industry that Executive Vice President Oswald Whitman Knauth made him his assistant. At 30, Mr. Hoving was himself a Macy executive vice president. In 1932 Sewell Lee Avery made him vice president & general sales manager of Montgomery Ward & Co. in Chicago, told him to put sex appeal into Ward's catalog, packaging, merchandising. Walter Hoving did a good job.- Last spring his old boss, Oswald Whitman Knauth, now president of Associated Dry Goods Corp., which controls eight U. S. department stores, led by Manhattan's Lord...