Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...administration's prime political adviser and agent. For twelve years (1909-21) an Iowa Congressman. Western Campaign Manager for Calvin Coolidge as well as Herbert Hoover, he has come in the Hoover Cabinet to represent the rural psychology on political matters far more than does Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde of Missouri. The other politician in the Cabinet, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Toledo, represents city politics...
...Japanese troops were rushed from Port Arthur up the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway to strategic positions in central Manchuria where Japanese colonists have extensive vested interests...
...three weeks ago that Samuel Emory Thomason's Chicago Journal had been purchased by Walter Ansel Strong's Daily News, news-prophets set about to predict that the Journal would be turned into a tabloid (TIME, Aug. 12). Paying little attention to Strong denials, persistent Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane put one ear to the ground and wrote: "The Chicago Journal, giving a partial imitation of Alice's Cheshire Cat, will shrink from John Eastman's full size to a tabloid.* The Chicago Daily News, promoting this metamorphosis, should read La Fontaine's fable...
...Dance of Life (Paramount). When Arthur Hopkins and George Manker Waiters wrote the play Burlesque, they somehow extracted, the maximum amount of sentimentality from a story which was even then not altogether new but which became for the first time extraordinarily successful. How a loyal dancing girl forced her alcoholic, small-time husband into a big part, how she stuck to him when good luck made him forget her, how she bucked him up in failure, was immediately used with variations as a theme for so many pictures that it was hard to believe that Paramount's delayed production...
...Port Arthur. Tex., proscribes gyrations not approved by the National Association of Dancing Masters...