Word: boomeranged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smyrna, Fla. on the shiny black surface of Indian River, a dozen tiny boats, responsive as walnut-shells, noisy as airplanes, wheeled, bounced and scudded around a ten-mile boomerang-shaped course. They were Class-X outboard motorboats, competing in the first international outboard races ever held...
...concocted to entrench more solidly the President with the ''masses," and of course it brought countless remarks from the gullible as to the kindness of the understanding pilot of the great ship of state. Would TIME report the natural sequel to this story-if it proves a boomerang-and what was done to the other hundreds of peanut vendors that took the executive order literally-and moved their stands to the vicinity of the Vasila- kos stand...
...which the two protagonists get railroaded into jail and proceed to win the football game in an inter-prison league. Stadium tactics are hardly in order when our two heroes let loose their bag of tricks, not the least among which are a chloroform-soaked handkerchief and a boomerang pigskin...
...them. "March of Time," in the opinion of many, many people, is the finest program on the air, and while we regretted that the sponsors decided to discontinue the broadcast, we had no intention of penalizing the publishers by dis continuing our subscription, because it would prove a boomerang. The punishment would be ours. I too read many newspapers and magazines, but I have yet to find a magazine that gives the news of the world in such concise form. Broadcasting companies are not philanthropists, and the fact that the C. B. C. decided to use the program...
...statement of Mayor Walker of New York, charging that the country's banks have not cooperated in the present crisis, and urging that the federal government contribute to their financial relief, is likely to prove a boomerang. In almost every large American city, the conduct of the politicians themselves has undermined the confidence of the public at large as well as that of the bankers. In making this charge, the mayor is indirectly accusing himself...