Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life quickens in an ectasy of timbrels and dancing. In the great theatre of the Wine God slaves begin to arrive with pillows to await their masters. Behind the scene carpenters are shouting angrily. Euripides, one of the competitors in the play contest, has invented some new stage machinery and sound effects that don't work properly. The audience begins to arrive and the great citizens reclaim their pillows. White-robed thousands stream in to fill the amphitheater row by row up to the top. At last a trumpet blows, the roar of sound fades into silence--and Medea begins...
...upstart independent outfit named Transradio Press Service (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Transradio celebrated its first birthday by announcing new customers in Newark, N. J., Louisville, Ky., Richmond, Va., and, most important, its first "national" sponsor, Continental Baking Co.'s "Wonder Bread." The Wonder Bread news programs begin this week in Detroit, Columbus, Akron, Dayton, Toledo...
...calculated not only to find scandal ready-made but to cause a split in the Cabinet. Regular Democrats looked down a long vista of trouble with Huey Long hammering at their Party manager. Yet that day, Huey's daily denunciation went astray. When he rose to begin, Democratic Leader Robinson agreed to the demand for any data Mr. Ickes might have about Mr. Farley. Promptly Long's resolution was passed...
Imagine sombrero-wearing William Randolph Hearst editing with Communist zeal the Great American Farm Newspaper and you begin to have some faint idea of Comrade Yakov Arkadevich Yakovlev...
...Department of Agriculture one day last month, obligingly posed for cameramen. Secretary Wallace glared at him from the other end of the chamber. So did Secretary Roper and Attorney General Cummings. This Cabinet trio, constituting the Grain Futures Commission of the U. S., had summoned him before them to begin hearings in the biggest case ever handled by that tribunal. The little man was Arthur William Cutten, whom the Government described as "the greatest speculator this country ever had." Had he or had he not lied to the U. S. Government about how much wheat he owned "in order...