Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forum's Editor Leach, Review of Reviews' Editor Page and their confreres of Scribner's, the Sunday Worker and North American Review had been alert followers of U. S. Governmental doings, they would never have been taken in by Pledge Brown at all. Last May Alaska's Delegate to Congress Anthony Joseph Dimond filled more than four pages of the Congressional Record with an expose of Brown's career. After leaving Alaska, where he was arrested for stealing a woman's purse, this extraordinary opportunist, whose full name, according to Delegate Dimond, is Wilbur...
...however. SEC's proposals centred on the indenture, urging such elementary requirements as liability for failure to record mortgages, notify bondholders of defaults or prevent illegal substitutions of collateral. By setting higher legal standards for trustees and forbidding exculpatory (hedge) clauses in indentures, SEC hopes to evolve vigorous, alert agencies, per-haps paid more than trustees now receive, but whose sole purpose would be protection of security owners...
...news, more expertly written. . . . Make every word count, have some decent respect for the time of the reader, and publish more and better news pictures and cartoons. . . . Tell a common story and quit-do not repeat the facts three times, in introduction, description and interview. ... Be natural, direct, wholesome, alert. Work for the readers, busy people who are depending on you to tell them 'what's doing.' See the beauty in life as well as the horror. Tell it all and tell it straight. Charge 5? per copy daily and 10? Sunday and give quality value...
Wood, Wood. Soon passengers were chattering and bandying compliments about the feature of the Queen Mary most of them at once liked best, the frank and "shippy" use of every imaginable kind of wood in her walls, panels, bas reliefs and sculptures. Among more than 50 kinds of wood, alert fanciers assisted by Cunard handbooks were soon spotting avoidire, petula, zebrano, bubinga, makore, tiger oak, patapsko, peroba, pomla, blackbean. Some of the wood had been sprayed with aluminum glaze and gleamed like silver. Definitely and handsomely the keynote of the Queen Mary's modernistic decoration is wood, wood, wood...
...manufacturing costs meant not more but less purchasing power for the nation (TIME, May 4). Though the President appeared to contradict himself a few days later at a White House press conference while elaborating upon the high cost of old-fashioned building methods, his statement was overlooked by no alert businessman. Last week in Los Angeles General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan, a representative of an industry whose history is most clearly at variance with the President's observation, delivered the first measured rebuttal to Jefferson Day economics. Said G. M.'s president...