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...town meeting was needed to make democracy work, he began in 1935 to put on a weekly town meeting demonstration in Town Hall for a nation-wide radio audience. Soon a good part of the U. S. population was listening to his verbal prize fights and Town Hall had overflow audiences. Some 700 groups have been formed in many a U. S. town to listen to Town Hall's programs and discuss them afterwards. To foster local town meetings all over the U. S.. the League for Political Education, changing its name to Town Hall, Inc., with Denny...
...associations, boards of education or other groups sponsor the performances, put them on in schools or rented halls. All this makes it possible to give children top-rank musical and dramatic shows at 10¢ to 25?. The companies play an average of five times a week, frequently to overflow audiences. In Gallipolis, Ohio (pop. 7,100) a ballet drew 1,500 children from all the countryside. In Hartford's (Conn.) Bushnell Memorial Auditorium last year 3,300 children filled every seat to hear an opera...
First test of U. S. response to Author Lehmann's literary career came last week when she appeared as speaker before the overflow audience which opened Manhattan's National Book Fair at Rockefeller Center. The audience begged Author Lehmann to sing...
...overflow crowd which turned out for Professor James B. Munn's introductory speech last Thursday, it was necessary to move to the larger confines of Emerson...
...since Thomas Montgomery Howell tried unsuccessfully to corner corn six years ago has the Chicago grain market witnessed such a knockdown battle as took place last week. Though the nation's corn bins will soon overflow with the biggest corn crop since 1932, corn supplies last week were very low because last year's carryover was the smallest of this century. With deliveries of September corn futures due on Sept. 30, longs had the best opportunity in many a harvest moon to soak shorts...