Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...helped the U. S. win back a trifling $14,000,000 of the hundreds of millions alleged to have been misspent, before resigning in 1926. In 1929 he was named chairman of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, a post he quit last November when Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown persuaded Governor Myers Cooper to appoint him to the Senate, vice Elder Statesman Theodore Elijah Burton, deceased. He comes up for election next month...
...appearance he is taller than his Ohio colleague, short Senator Simeon Davison Fess, or his No. 1 political sponsor, medium-sized Postmaster General Brown. A wide mouth, strong nose, sharp eyes under wrinkly brows, a fine head of wavy dark hair touched with grey combine to give him a certain cinematic handsomeness. In dress he is quiet, neat, careful about his neckties...
Both Miss Alexander and Mr. Williams do their utmost for the piece, but a composite ghost it still remains. Brown Buddies. The opinion that Bill Robinson, "The Dark Cloud of Joy," is the world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down...
Unhappily, Brown Buddies has very little to offer in the way of entertainment besides Bill Robinson. The situation is somewhat grotesque, having to do with a group of colored folk from East St. Louis who go to war, accompanied by comedians, chorus girls and an ingénue under the aegis of the Y. M. C. A. Adelaide Hall, a veteran of Blackbirds, is one of the noncombatants. Her singing and dancing is on a par with the entertainment furnished in a good many Harlem resorts. There are only two tunes, "In Missouria" and "Give Me AMan Like That,"which...
Last year Brown beat Princeton by a long pass in the last period. This time Coach Roper's rearranged but undistinguished combination was outplayed all the time. The last whistle blew just in time to prevent another Brown touchdown. Brown 7, Princeton...