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mid-1930s and Leo
By the mid-1930s he was performing as emcee in Chicago at Leo Seltzer's dance marathons at the Chicago Coliseum, and worked his own club, Chez Buckley, on Western Avenue through the early 1940s.

mid-1930s and change
Previous attempts to replace the consumer society as derived from capitalism with a non-consumerist society failed and in the mid-1930s permitted a consumer society, a major change from traditional Marxism's anti-market and anti-consumerist theories.
* The CPUSA's work in auto and the change in line of the mid-1930s, Workers ' Advocate Supplement, March 20, 1987

mid-1930s and from
In the mid-1930s Blyton experienced a spiritual crisis, but she decided against converting to Roman Catholicism from the Church of England because she had felt it was " too restricting ".
Ground for a rudimentary aircraft landing area was cleared during the mid-1930s, in anticipation that the island might eventually be used as a stopover for a commercial trans-Pacific air route and also to further U. S. territorial claims in the region against rival claims from Great Britain.
The drop in the national birth rate during and after the war, resulting from a national shortage of young men created an " echo " effect in the generation that provided the French conscript army in the mid-1930s.
The tiny spinet upright was manufactured from the mid-1930s until recent times.
Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through 1942, and wrote many poems there, including a number that directly address or reflect the Shetland environment such as " On A Raised Beach ", which was inspired by a visit to West Linga.
Elsewhere, adults, as reported in newspapers from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, typically saw it as a form of extortion, with reactions ranging from bemused indulgence to anger.
Japan's expansionist policies alienated it from other countries in the League of Nations and by the mid-1930s brought it closer to Germany and Italy, who had both pursued similar expansionist policies.
By the mid-1930s his father's increasing alcoholism and abusive temper ( he had part of his ear bitten off in a poker game fight ) finally led Edwina to separate from him although they never divorced.
* Flavonoids, referred to as Vitamin P from the mid-1930s to early 50s
Pauline Kael wrote that Colbert was widely admired by American audiences from the time of mid-1930s.
Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).
By the mid-1930s, the Metropolitan line was suffering from congestion caused by the limited capacity of its tracks between Baker Street and Finchley Road stations.
The work is the most famous and widely played of Cowell's tone cluster pieces, which he performed during tours of North America and Europe from the early 1920s through the mid-1930s.
The train was in use from the early 1900s until the mid-1930s after the merger of the two railroads when the tracks were removed and the streets were paved due to increase use of cars.
This can be seen in numerous calypsos of the early to mid-1930s, from Roaring Lion and Attila the Hun in particular, who also recorded in New York at the time.
After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular and highly successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s.
The Seminole have been engaged in stock raising since the mid-1930s, when they received cattle from western Native Americans.
Torp was a former antimilitarist, and was imprisoned for five months in 1924 as he called for a military strike, but shed this ideology from the mid-1930s.
By the mid-1930s the royalties from the " Little House " books brought a steady and increasingly substantial income to the Wilders for the first time in their 50 years of marriage.
In the mid-1930s, the headquarters of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet were moved from Malta, to Alexandria, Egypt.
Particularly, the movie's portrayal of James Gardiner, premier of Saskatchewan from the late 1920s to mid-1930s, was objected to by political historians and the Gardiner family itself.

mid-1930s and into
Roman Ingarden, an early student of Husserl at Freiburg, corresponded with Husserl into the mid-1930s.
The ensuing discussion of a potential political deal between Germany and the Soviet Union had to be channeled into the framework of economic negotiations between the two countries, because close military and diplomatic connections, as was the case before mid-1930s, had afterward been largely severed.
The term came into prominence during the mid-1930s, when Lazar Kaganovich, a Soviet politician and associate of Stalin, reportedly declared, " Let's replace Long Live Leninism with Long Live Stalinism!
In the mid-1930s, Piccard's interests shifted when he realized that a modification of his high altitude balloon cockpit would allow descent into the deep ocean.
The airport was the base of Pan Am's flights to Cuba, but fell into disuse when the airline switched to seaplanes in the mid-1930s.
By the mid-1930s Florey settled into the studio system and produced vehicles for Warren William, Guy Kibbee, and Akim Tamiroff ( briefly promoted as a lead actor ).
As an arranger, Henderson came into his own in the mid-1930s.
In the mid-1930s, U. S. Route 52 was extended into Minnesota, and Route 10S was renamed to Route 52 ( now Interstate 94 ).
Keres won top-class tournaments from the mid-1930s into the mid-1970s, a span of 40 years, and won major events in western Europe, eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, South America, and North America.
Changchun remained the break of gauge point between the Russian and standard gauges into the 1930s, until the Chinese Eastern Railway itself was bought by Manchukuo and converted to the standard gauge in the mid-1930s.
Woodward Maurice Ritter ( January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974 ), better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting ( son John and grandson Jason ).
The League became less militant by the mid-1930s, bringing it into conflict with both the Comintern in Moscow and the Communist Party USA, but its advocacy of Soviet aesthetic ideas had a lasting impact on American theater.
The United States revived and experimented in their modern approach to amphibious warfare between 1913 to mid-1930s, when the United States Navy and Marine Corps became interested in setting up advanced bases in opposing countries during wartime ; the prototype advanced base force officially evolved into the Fleet Marine Force ( FMF ) in 1933.
During the later 1920s and into the mid-1930s, with the rank of Captain, he was successively Chief of Staff to the Commander, Destroyer Squadrons Battle Fleet, Aide to the Secretary of the Navy, and Commanding Officer of USS West Virginia.
In the mid-1930s, the Maison de Verre's double-height " salle de séjour " was transformed into a salon regularly frequented by Marxist intellectuals like Walter Benjamin as well as by Surrealist poets and artists such as Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, Jean Cocteau, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró and Max Jacob.
At the time of Hinton's first visit to China in the mid-1930s, a handful of U. S journalists, such as Edgar Snow, Helen Foster Snow, and Owen Lattimore, had sneaked through the KMT blockade into Communist territory.
Conceived during the mid-1930s but did not go into production until after 1945.
In the mid-1930s, with the rise of " swing " music and the popularity of the swing bands ever increasing, the Crosby band managed to authentically combine the fundamental elements of the older jazz style with the then-rising-in-popularity swing style into a sound and big-band style all its own.
Unusually, Kling found his way into motorsport via his first job as a reception clerk at Daimler-Benz in the mid-1930s, competing in hillclimb and trials events in production machinery in his spare time.
Originating in the late 19th century, the Lochner era carried into the mid-1930s, when the Court's tendency to invalidate labor and market regulations came into direct conflict with Congress ' regulatory efforts in the New Deal.
The Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad was owned by the NYNH & H through the CNE, but was not merged into the NYNH & H by the mid-1930s when the NYNH & H went bankrupt.
The following references to Tom Black are recorded in the history of " Firbeck Hall ", an elegant country home in England dating from circa 1585, that in the mid-1930s was converted into one of the country's most exclusive sporting country clubs.

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