Word: optional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wets, passed the State Legislature's lower house after a stormy session by 105 votes to 85, squeaked through the Senate 27 votes to 22. Henceforth, Georgia's counties may permit package sales (limited to two quarts a day per person) and liquor manufacture by local option, after a referendum petitioned by 35% of the voters. Only remaining dry States: Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee...
...drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining property option, and mining stock of value undetermined. To avoid any misunderstanding, Testator Alvord had attached to his will a picture of the actress. Said Legatee Davies from Hollywood: "I never met Mr. Alvord. ... I appreciated his good opinion of my work. ... I imagine the best thing to do is to give...
...reference to the Music Halls failure to run the LaGuardia pictures for a second week is the fault of no printer, but nevertheless unfair to the Music Hall, which has an option to run M. O. T. for two weeks, only occasionally exercises...
...Radio for $255,000. Room Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent it on to wild acclaim. In similar warmhearted fashion he undertook Brother...
...local farmers and hunters went with guns every fall to the top of Hawk Mountain and blazed away at the migrating hawks. Between 3,000 and 5,000 were killed every season. In 1934, peppery Mrs. Rosalie Edge, militant head of the New York Emergency Conservation Committee, secured an option on the two square miles of Hawk Mountain, scrabbled together $924.40 to pay the expenses of a keeper and a deputy sheriff, presently bought the property...