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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holds is the proper U. S. politician's response to a bad one. His handshake is no heartier than the usual political handshake deserves to be. To reporters who pry into his political plans he talks on & on-about the need to develop new inventions, the need to build 550,000 new houses, how much more employment was provided by the aggressive commercial development of the gasoline engine than by the land grants. This leads them to report that he has no sense of humor...
...Lady (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by B. G. De Sylva). First show in four years to charge $7.70 on opening night (with seats being scalped at $50 and $75 a pair), Du Barry Was a Lady swept into Manhattan last week with a tremendous advance build-up and the virtually golden guarantees of Cole Porter, Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman...
Medical directors will receive "nominal salaries." Doctors will be paid a lump sum every three months, based on the number of patients they have treated and the kind of services they have ren dered. They will treat patients in their offices until the organization can build a clinic. If the plan prospers, the directors hope to engage a staff of doctors for full-time services...
Early in the game, the first two offensive lines with Vint Freedley at the goal were able to build up a two point lead, but as Coach Hodder played more of his reserves, the Junior Olympics snatched away the Crimson earnings. They edged the Hoddermen until the last two seconds of play when Warren Winslow sank the tying score...
...dropped 50% to 4,000,000 tons a year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...