Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience Michigan's 1940 Republican Presidential hope, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, gave warning that Federal wage-fixing, once initiated, may lead to Federal price-fixing. They "together will lead ... to the centralized, authoritarian State with its tyranny of Government-blessed monopolies." Alabama's Senator Hugo Black, co-author of the bill, jumped to the microphone to defend it: "At least 6,000,000 people are now working more than 40 hours a week . . . 3,000,000 are now getting less than 40? an hour . . . even a 40-hour week would result in the re-employment...
...bank's stockholders to enforce their "double liability," General Dawes at once paid up his personal assessment of $5,200; how when the legality of the assessment was upheld; Dawes Brothers, Inc. paid up their liability of $1,027,000 six months before it was due. The author who thus gave the Daweses their due was New Dealer Jesse Holman Jones...
...Mayer company detectives on guard to see that there was no repetition of the mob scenes at Rudolph Valentino's obsequies in 1926, the body of Miss Harlow lay on a couch in the Tennyson Room of Pierce Brothers Mortuary, Hollywood's largest. A portrait of the author of In Memoriam and a volume of his verse were arranged, as usual, nearby. In a "very beautiful but not overly expensive casket" purchased by the late star's mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, Miss Harlow's remains were taken to Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Wee Kirk...
Towards the Harvard Fund the Class has to date totaled $26,888.12. The total number of contributors who have given at one time or author is 488 or 567 of the Class. Of this record the comment runs that "As compared with that of other classes it is good...
During his last year Author Brown gave up pacing 20 miles a day, was much in demand as a speaker at business men's luncheons. A free man again, he found the sane world much nicer but also stranger than a mental hospital. What best evokes for him his asylum days is the worried expression of the people on the streets of New York City, their mutterings to themselves. After four years the only asylum habit that clings to him is counting passengers as they get on and off elevators, to make sure none of them has slipped...