Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Pressure was applied on Sunday, when the Red Army reported an incident-on the border which, the Soviet Union claimed, killed or wounded 13 soldiers. Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dispatched a note to Finland immediately demanding that Finnish troops be moved from twelve to 15 miles back of the border. On Monday the Finns formally disavowed the incident, replied with a refusal to move their troops unless the Soviet Union did likewise. After that the Finnish-Soviet timetable was crowded with angry notes, inflammatory speeches, useless diplomatic parleys...
...years ago promoters of professional football were unable to fill a good-sized stadium, even with Annie Oakleys. Last Sunday 62,000 football fans jampacked Manhattan's Polo Grounds for a championship* game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. The crowd was small compared to the 102,000 who watched the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia the day before. But more than 50,000 applications for tickets had been turned down, and speculators had little difficulty in getting $25 a seat from fans eager to see what they considered the best football game of the year...
When Charlie McCarthy takes the air on Sunday nights, speaking the slick impertinences of Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, the Chase and Sanborn Hour traditionally has the ear of perhaps a third of the nation, largest radio audience in the U. S. But Charlie appears only twice (a total of about 15 minutes) during the hour: the rest is usually orchestra music, songs by Contralto Dorothy Lamour and Baritone Donald Dickson, effervescences by guest stars and a master of ceremonies. Between Charlie's turns at the mike, the interest of his vast audience wavers. Many tune in on other programs, others...
...Most afflicted by tension are patriots, close students of world affairs, Sunday drivers, businessmen, energetic and ambitious people generally...
...free trial phonograph concerts will be given at the Union tomorrow and Sunday evenings at 7 o'clock. All students are invited...