Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sons of an employe of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, the Mauchs were born in 1924. Billy is the older by ten minutes. Their mother, delighted with her product, had them taught to dance before they went to school. By the time they were seven, the little Mauchs were acting on radio and posing for ads in their spare time. Their jobs were comparatively easy because whenever one felt unlike working the other took his place. By the time they got their Warner contract in 1935, the Mauchs had had experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat...
Mauchs currently have a contract calling for $350 a week apiece, with equal attention and billing guaranteed. Mrs. Mauch gets $150 as their guardian. Until last week, Father Felix Mauch, currently a general agent for the Toledo, Peoria & Western, lived and worked in New York, dashing out West to see his sons on his vacations. Between pictures his sons visited him in the East. Last week...
...somewhat banal white marble palace of the Pan-American Union in Washington last week gathered diplomats from 21 republics of the Western Hemisphere, to hear a somewhat banal Pan-American Day message from their Good Neighbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Beaming "with faith in the high destiny of the Americas," Good Neighbor Roosevelt spoke a smooth public piece in the style to which all Americans are now accustomed. When he had finished he unexpectedly dismissed the press, asked that the microphones before him be deadened, and in a suspenseful silence gave a confidential extempore talk which every delegate present was soon...
...train travelers who dislike horizontal undressing in a berth but cannot afford a drawing room or compartment, Pullman Co. last week had an announcement. Now abuilding, in new equipment for the New York Central's 20th Century Limited, the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, the North Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific streamliners and the Santa Fe's Chief, is a new Pullman creation-the "roomette." Occupying a little over the space of one section (upper & lower berths), it is a miniature compartment with a sliding metal door, a real bed which folds into the wall giving ample...
...world which Erich Maria Remarque saw blasted away on the Western Front the only good thing that escaped destruction was comradeship. Behind the shattered lives, in a defeated Germany where the old values tumbled overnight, that value still stood firm. This was the thesis of his first two books. All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back; it remains the thesis of his third. To those who have forgotten the War or to those who never knew it, Remarque's preoccupation with this one theme may seem morbid or adolescent. It is not the brotherhood...