Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Araki. Censors were less alert in the case of Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, Japan's dry, spry little Minister of War, translations of whose article for Kaikosha, the Army Club magazine, reached the U. S. last week...
Last winter members of the Loyal Order of Moose and of the Fraternal Order of Eagles complained to the New York World-Telegram that these organizations were running large lotteries with small prizes. Someone, it appeared, was making an unholy profit. The alert World-Telegram turned the complaints over to Federal District Attorney Medalie for investigation. Last week the Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan indicted Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, five other individuals and Western Union Telegraph Co. on charges of operating interstate lotteries. Conspiracy...
...advent of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's second child. One day Mrs. Dwight Morrow and Mrs. Lindbergh were seen to leave the estate in Mrs. Morrow's Cadillac. A Hearst newshawk chased them to a Hudson River ferry. Just as the Morrow car rolled onto the boat, alert attendants slammed a gate in front of the newshawk's car. The birth-watchers telephoned their city desks that evidently the Lindbergh baby was to be born in Manhattan. Skeptical city editors scoffed, warned against "alibis." The vigil continued. One morning last week Colonel Lindbergh cheerily telephoned his "approved" press...
...Depression record, they were glum last week when the Association of Life Insurance Presidents (culling reports from 44 companies and 82% of the legal reserve business) announced that volume of new insurance for the first seven months was off 15.3%, that July volume was off 23.5%-Despite the drop alert and ubiquitous salesmen placed $5,700,000,000 of group, industrial and ordinary insurance in the seven lean months. U. S. life insurance has doubled in the past ten years. It now amounts to 70% of the world's total. Accustomed to whopping big increases year after year, insurance...
...eight, Graphic and Illustrated London News were best known in the U. S. Both were distinguished by fine color plates, striking photographs of world news events, superbly printed. It was the alert, somewhat sensational Graphic that introduced to the English-speaking Press Dr. Erich Salomon and his "Candid Camera." The Graphic devoted less attention than the Illustrated London News to archaeology, Egyptology; more to unique photography. Also it combed the world's Press for items characteristic of national foibles, reprinted them with little or no comment as the American Mercury presents its "Americana...