Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calloway, the hi-de-ho man who brought Minnie the Moocher everlasting fame, occupies the stage of the Boston Theater this week along wit a newspaper film, "Woman Wise". Calloway sings and struts to a number of Harlem favorites with a little more restraint than usual, introduces six lindy hoppers, who add considerable zest to the program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit piano...
Thinking over the anti-U. S. scurrility which boiled up in the State-controlled German press last fortnight after New York's Mayor LaGuardia had called Hitler a "brown-shirted fanatic" (TIME, March 15), the wife of New York's famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise last week began to boil, too. Off to Secretary of State Hull she shot a hot letter calling his attention to remarks in No. 3 Nazi Goebbels' Der Angriff* demanding an official rebuke...
...fortune of war-one day we are on top, another below," commented wise, eagle-bald Madrid Defense Junta Commander General Jose Miaja. "We have had a better day than the previous ones, but it is no cause for ringing bells...
Since the rise in copper has long since been discounted in the price of copper shares, the stock market has lately been combed for lead and zinc issues. Market-wise, U. S. Smelting Refining & Mining, which used to be a prime "silver stock," is now a "lead stock" with a high zinc flavor. On boom-time operating schedules it turns out from its own mines about 60,000 tons of lead, 30,000 tons of zinc...
...would be no solution to cut down our educational facilities. Since we are able to accomodate many times more students than the foreign universities, it would be wise for the United States to make the best possible use of its superior facilities. The aches and pains of the last few decades come from the fact that a profligate selection of students has dragged the institutions of learning down to the lowest common denominator...