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Word: backing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alone in ridiculing Lord Macmillan's Ministry was the House of Commons. In the Minister's own House of Lords next day Opposition Whip Lord Strabolgi poked gentle fun at him: "Lord Macmillan's position is that he is lying on his back with three Defense Ministers sitting on his chest." (Laughter.) There was need, said Lord Strabolgi, for a man with "journalistic flair" to make the Ministry a powerful department as it was in World War I under Britain's late, great news baron, Lord Northcliffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...theatre town Milwaukee is underweight; its two barnlike theatres just mosey along. No light chore was it, therefore, when Off-and-On-Broadway Myron C. Pagan tackled Milwaukee's carriage trade last June to back a repertory company. But Fagan got his money, and last month started producing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Selling Point | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...eighth annual National Ceramic Exhibition. For ceramists, the occasion was excuse for a jolly get-together, as well as a chance to see what other designers were up to. Lay folk could admire and be amused by the assorted exhibits. Sum of their reaction: bric-a-brac is coming back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mantelpiece Art | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Alternately the market went to pieces on headlines about 1) peace, and 2) Congressional embargoes remaining in force; went through the roof on headlines about i) long war, and 2) Congressional repeal of the arms embargo. But the net result of all this switching back & forth between war & peace got the market nowhere. One favorite pastime was restless switching from one fancied war baby to another: Wall Street Journal's, Broad Street Gossip Column noted that Sept. 26 one broker got 60% of his commissions from switches, that one customer had switched 15 times in the last two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Month at the Races | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Immediate result of all these new ship orders was a rush to put inefficient plants back to work-plants not used since World War I. Thus, American Ship and Commerce, an unappetizing Harriman affair, owes the U. S. Government $1,097,413.22 from World War I, and owes Philadelphia $1,229,608 in back taxes. It offered to settle for $100,000 apiece, got Attorney General Frank Murphy to agree provided it can become a going concern again, started reorganizing to open its moldy Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Ships-- for What? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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