Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey Democrats would like to break up Mayor Bradway's Republican machine and get Cape May County back into the Democratic column. Last winter Democratic Senators protested the seating of Cape May County's Senator-elect William C. Hunt on the grounds that votes had been fraudulently switched to him by Wildwood Republicans. So tense was this situation that U. S. Senator-elect William Henry Smathers remained for three months in his old seat in the State Senate, divided 11 to 10 between the parties, to help balance Senator-suspect Hunt. During the investigation, Mayor Bradway...
...Derby Eve banquet of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler extended his thanks for the colonels' aid during last winter's great Ohio flood, announced that he would break his rule against appointing more colonels by issuing up to ten new commissions in 1938. Named new general of the order was Colonel John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads...
...Metropolitan Opera last week abandoned formality and opened a series of spring operas. Last year the spring season was called, half-apologetically, "experimental.'' This year its future seemed firmer and it was listed simply as "popular-priced." Three dollars again bought seats that in the winter sell for $7. Pianist Lee Pattison, recently appointed manager of the spring company, looked forward to the day when the Metropolitan would give performances all year round...
...Last winter Victor repressed a series of early jazz masterpieces, sold them as the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Album. The late great Trumpet Player Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke's effortless glissando, accompanied by various old bands, was to be heard sprinkling graceful, spontaneous melody through all twelve sides of the set. Two non-commercial enterprises, the Hot Club of France and the New York Hot Club, have repressed a few scarce swing classics for their members. But the commercial record companies are chiefly interested in making and selling new records, and the hot clubs are composed of amateurs uninterested...
About 180 of the 211 future officers of the Harvard Military R. O. T. C. will stage the first outdoor review next Wednesday afternoon on the Rugby field. During the winter the Naval Scientists had a review indoors in Memorial Hall; other than this, all previous spectacles were regular drills under inspection...