Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With an alert memory he prepares his speeches with his wife, delivers them on the Senate floor with slashing vigor. His oratory is spoiled by a crudity of voice and diction. He does not often enter rough-&-tumble Senate debate. Unlike blind Georges Scapini of the French Chamber of Deputies (TIME, April 7) he has never been known to sway his colleagues at any critical time or on a matter of great moment...
...Spring practice has been Interspersed by individual kicking and passing competitions and these are to he held this year at the end of the week. Prizes in the form of medals and ribbons will be awarded to the best lateral passing combination, the best punter and dropkicker, the most alert pass receiver, and the linesman who comes out of the line the fastest. Last year A. W. Huguley '31, carried off the lion's share of the honors...
Congressman LaGuardia keeps more than the U. S. Judiciary under his alert little eye. Last year, as the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City, he charged "a loathsome scandal" in the city judiciary, accused a Tammany judge, Magistrate Albert H. Vitale, of having borrowed money from Arnold Rothstein, murdered gambler. Last week Magistrate Vitale found himself removed from the bench because the LaGuardia charge was true...
...Alert, 42-year-old President Compton. like his father, is a Wooster graduate (1908). He taught there one year, then at Reed College (Portland, Ore.), then at Princeton where he was made an assistant professor in 1913. During the War he was an aeronautical engineer in the Signal Corps. The year following he was associate scientific attache at the U. S. Embassy in Paris. As outside jobs, he is consulting physicist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture and for General Electric...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's jewels have been his sons-in-law. With the late Edward William Bok he built his great magazine publishing business (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, et al.). And for the last 17 years his dapper, alert step-son-in-law, John Charles Martin, has busied himself in the other Curtis publishing enterprise, that of gaining control of the Philadelphia newspaper field. Announced, last week, was the seventh addition to Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc.?The Philadelphia Inquirer...