Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through its third week. Besides being New Jersey's Democratic boss and Jersey City's mayor, Frank Hague is Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which gratefully accepted $270,000 from C.I.O.'s cornerstone, the United Mine Workers of America, for its 1936 campaign. Alert C.I.O. Lawyer Morris Ernst asked Vice Chairman Hague if he would repudiate, for example, the C.I.O. supporters of Democratic Senator Alben Barkley in Kentucky, of Democratic Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan...
...TIME, May 23, the alert Editor of Religion gave a report of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Va. in which he represented with fairness the attitude of Southern Baptists toward the proposed World Council of Churches. In one clause of the opening sentence there is a serious lapsus pennae. Baptists never speak of "the saving grace of baptism." They do not believe that regeneration takes place in water baptism. Regeneration is a spiritual process and not sacramental. Salvation is by grace through faith...
...Said alert Washington Newshawk Pau! Mallon (King Features) who reported the incident last week: "FHA is reaching for a CIGARETTE...
...which had made his reputation five years before -was The Son of the Sheik, which grossed $2,500,000 after his death. Last year, Producer Joe Schenck's Art Cinema Corporation, which made the picture, sold the negative, along with some 30 other old cinema scraps, to an alert entrepreneur named Emil Jensen. Wary Mr. Jensen began operations by trying out The Son of the Sheik in Washington. When it broke all house records, he decided to invest a little money in reconditioning. With a musical score and a few elementary sound effects, the picture opened in Boston three...
...afternoon last week a message sped from Manhattan to Albany, telling an alert, round-faced little Justice of New York's Supreme Court, Philip James McCook, that he was needed urgently that evening by the district attorney of New York County. Pleading illness in his family, Justice McCook slipped away from the State constitutional convention which he was attending, reached Manhattan at 1 a. m., sat down at home to inspect a complaint against one James J. Hines, alleged conspirator and partner in the operation of the sprawling city's $100,000,000-per-year "policy" or "numbers...