Word: civically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...winner by this tiny margin was another unusual figure, an insurance tycoon, J. Adhemar Raynault, who once before left his business to serve briefly as Mayor of Montreal, gave the city an administration active in Red-baiting. No spendthrift, M. Raynault slashed civic expenses. In his Gallic thrift Mayor Raynault had the mayor's official $1,400 fur robe stuffed away in a city vault to save the annual 3% furrier's storage charge. Moths ate all but the buttons...
...Rich, civic-minded President Judge William Curtis Bok of Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, who has broken precedents by: 1) refusing to enter the family business (Curtis Publishing); 2) abandoning Main Line Republicanism for the New Deal; 3) hiring out as an Intourist chauffeur in Leningrad, shattered another by becoming the first judge to serve on a Federal jury. Explaining that his calendar was nearly cleared, earnest Judge Bok confided: "I've always wanted to know what went on in the mind of a juror and now is my chance to find...
...Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design toured the Loop enthusiastically wailing plugs for Art Week. On nearby sidewalks pretty models paraded with paintings stuck to them like sandwich boards. In Rochester the art show in the Civic Exhibits Building vied for honors with a poultry show where a human crowing contest was in progress, hired an orchestra to drown out the crowers...
Last week 136 contestants showed up: men & women, black & white, day laborers, land-owning farmers from eleven States. Some came as free-lance pickers (paying their own $10 entry fee), but the majority represented civic-minded cotton communities. Each entrant was given two half-mile rows to pluck. A good cotton picker, pacing himself for a day's work in the field, averages from 18 to 35 lb. an hour. But last week's pickers were after something more than a day's pay. When the two-hour limit was up, one of the pickers had turned...
Boston has acquired a practically new playhouse in the remodeled Civic Repertory Theatre. Its owners, the New England Town Hall, Inc., should be congratulated for giving it such an auspicious opening. If they can maintain the high entertainment standard set by Life With Father, they need little fear for its success...