Word: ballyhooer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank were a bad guess. Then he smiled cryptically. The country was still left guessing. In the Senate, Inflation's Thomas called a meeting of his friends and supporters-Father Coughlin, Robert Harriss (cotton broker), George LeBlanc (ex-banker). James H. Rand Jr. (Committee for the Nation)-to ballyhoo their demands. In the House, Representative Andrew Somers announced that the Coinage, Weights & Measures Committee would hear the opinions of all the most vociferous money theorists-hard, soft, and elastic-Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, Frank Vanderlip. Father Coughlin, Professor Irving Fisher, Banker James P. Warburg, etc. etc. Before their...
...sure that the editors of "Time" would be very indignant if they should read Mr. Satterthwaite's assertion that the readers of "Time" are gullible, unwary, and easy victims to Ballyhoo. For "Time" readers "pay five dollars a year for accurate news reporting" and intelligent advertising...
...blinded their judgment. One who was not bothered by such talk was Louis Little, the big-framed, booming-voiced coach who in four years at Columbia had built its football stature up from puniness. He worked his team hard for the Rose Bowl game, diligently guarded them from ballyhoo, banked on Stanford's overconfidence...
...SESSION...especially designed for young men of ability..." One looked on with more cynicism than surprise when the H. A. A. took to boosting the sale of football tickets by subway posters, but one hardly expected to find the Business School seducing unwary prospects by magazine advertisements. Apparently its ballyhoo about placing all its graduates (as clerks in chain groceries) isn't having its calculated effect on the enrollment...
Died. William O'Connell ("W. 0.") McGeehan, 54, famed sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune); of heart disease; at San Island Beach, Ga. He pierced the fog of ballyhoo around professional sport, turned a fishy eye on promoters, managers and their proteges, invented an elaborately sardonic slang...