Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composer, the prospects of becoming a permanent member are excellent. Once a member, real musical enjoyment is almost guaranteed. Faithful attendance at rehearsals is rewarded by inclusion in the concert list and the final big concert of the year with the Radcliffe Choral Society in Symphony Hall is well worth the preparation...
...cigars and cigarets, $249.55; ginger ale, $115; State Liquor Commission, $310.80. Governor Brann took to the radio to explain that his guests, including 150 newsmen, had been invited strictly to publicize Maine's resort attractions, that his Development Commission figured the State had got $600,000 worth of publicity out of the junket. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate F. Harold Dubord made much of the fact that Ulysses S. Grant's granddaughter Princess Cantacuzene, an imported Republican stumpster, "didn't think enough of our boys to marry one of them but now she comes to tell us the Constitution...
...great editor. The world knows Macfadden, the crusader, because of his fights against weakness, against prudery, for sane foods, for sane living. Macfadden today inspires more people than any other magazine editor. His followers are millions. . . . By its own right each Macfadden Magazine is a constructive force with worth-while people-because it mirrors life as it is lived today...
...committee of Philadelphia's great Baldwin Locomotive Works Showman Brady sent a letter on behalf of "William A. Brady & Brady Enterprises," refusing assent to the re-organization plan for which, since last spring, Baldwin has been soliciting stockholders' approval. Owner of 2,300 shares of common (currently worth $3.50 a share), Oldster Brady announced that his lawyers would ask the Philadelphia District Court for a rehearing on the plan, that if nobody else would fight it he would alone. Brady's objections to Baldwin's plan were two: 1) it would "virtually wipe out common stockholders...
VITAL PEACE-Henry Wickham Steed -Macmillan ($2.75). Grave discussion of the towering menaces of war, in which the author attempts to make the struggle for peace bold, heroic, adventurous, a "creative risk" worth taking...