Word: files
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...thought they should have won. But most were from radio stations which had refused similar programs in the belief they were lotteries-and from cinema exhibitors who were losing customers on Tuesday nights. Last week FCC did something drastic-sounding about Pot o' Gold: handed the whole file of complaints over to the Department of Justice, got the G-Men started on the radio rainbow's trail...
...lifeblood from rice and cotton. Along the palm-lined Battery strolled such elegant Huguenot grandees as the Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with races, receptions, and balls. In lively Creole New Orlcans that city of crawfish bisque and gumbo file. Spanish pompano and mackerel, fried plaintains, baked bananas, claret and Bourbon, absinthe, Sazerac and silver gin fizz--a life of dissipation was more alluring than anywhere else on the continent. But none of the hot blood of Charleston and New Orleans flowed in the veins of Thomas Jefferson...
Whether ponderous Bob Taft gets the Republican nomination or not, nobody winks at his energetic seriousness. He takes many a clip on the chin but keeps wading in. Still beaming from the Washington embrace, he showed up in Florida to do his stuff. There he added to the file of Calvinesque Taft pictures by letting himself be photographed fishing-coatless but in a store suit...
Cool as genteel cucumbers are the county medical societies which make up the rank & file of the American Medical Association. But hot as a red pepper is the New York County (Manhattan) Medical Society, largest and most powerful in the U. S. Last fall, its members objected to closed conclaves of the officers, clamored for open-meeting discussion of all important business matters. Last week members kicked up another hullabaloo...
Finally the members hoarsely decided on a secret ballot. Result: 303 upheld the action of the Comitia, 488 repudiated it. Although this action of the membership could not legally break the contract, it seemed clear last week that the rank & file had won. After a hasty conference, the retiring president spread the word that Dr. Hamilton would resign...