Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davenport Theatre was last week performing Zunguru by an African playwright-composer, Asadata Dafora Horton, whose Kykunkor got rave notices from Broadway critics in 1934. Primitive in plot, Zunguru was a kind of savage vaudeville, with three blacks pounding African drums, brown girls strutting their stuff, a witch doctor gabbling and shrieking, a fire-eater munching lighted torches-all of it "background" for Boy Meets Girl in Senegal...
...oppression by chain-store competition have been quieted by chain-store taxes.* Particularly stiff are Florida's; only Idaho has comparably severe rates. Florida's Cotton Mather, less fanatical but no less shrewd than his ancestor, worked out a system which he thought had the tax witch lashed to the stake: he organized his 15 stores under seven loosely knit corporations, no one of which held more than three stores. Under Florida's system of graduation, paying taxes on several small chains is small potatoes to paying on one large chain. The slipknot in his lashing...
While businessmen waited for the Committee's first move, probably into U. S. Steel in September, Chairman O'Mahoney tried to reassure them that, so far as he was concerned, the inquiry would be no witch hunt, no kangaroo court. Said he: "I think most people, regardless of their economic views, realize that we have gone into a new era and that we have to find some new rules. But I think they want to go about the job without resorting to punitive tactics. . . . It is a question whether the educated opinion of the American people can preserve...
...members of Government executive agencies. Named chairman of the committee was Wyoming's trust-busting Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, named a member was Idaho's trust-busting Senator William Edgar Borah, who declared: "I venture the belief that the committee is not proposing any witch-hunting program...
Wajan (Dr. Friedrich Dalsheim and Baron Victor von Plessan), a sympathetic record of Balinese ritual, is much more fully clothed than its popular predecessor of six years ago, Goona-Goona. Its exotic climax, a witch-exorcising trance dance, gives pictorial point to the recent reporting of Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias (Island of Bali) and Novelist Vicki Baum (Tale of Bali). Produced before either book was written, Wajan has been held up by years of litigation following the suicide in Germany of Jewish Dr. Dalsheim (The Wedding of Palo, The Head Hunters of Borneo), in the early days of the Hitler regime...