Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route from Manila to confer with President Roosevelt on Far Eastern conditions and scheduled to stop off in Indianapolis February 19. Two things Boss McNutt expects his lieutenants, Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Senator Sherman Minton, to have well in hand when he arrives are: 1) the boom for Paul V. McNutt for President of the U. S. in 1940, and 2) the defeat of Senator Frederick Van Nuys for party nominee at the-State convention in June...
...McNutt Presidential boom started on schedule January 21 when the State Democratic Committee met at the late Senator Tom Taggart's rococo hotel at French Lick Springs, accepted the resignation of Son Tom Taggart Jr. as national committeeman, elected as his successor Indianapolis Lawyer Frank McHale, deep-voiced, burly onetime University of Michigan footballer, original McNutt-for-President man. Also proceeding on schedule was the campaign against Senator Van Nuys, long on the outs with the McNutt-Townsend-Minton "two percent club," the machine organization to which State employes kick back that share of their salary. Having forfeited...
Last year the Federal Housing Administration insured the mortgages on 300,000 building units, 60% of all constructed in the U. S. But that was no housing boom and Franklin Roosevelt wants one to help get him out of his Recession. Avowed friend of Labor though he is, he was bound to admit that one factor in deterring home building is the high labor cost, and if the laborer would take a lower daily wage he would get a higher annual wage...
...Phaidon Press is the 15-year-old creation of a fiery little Viennese bibliophile, Bela Horovitz. Beginning in 1925 to produce art books on a large scale for the German market, he wratched his sales boom for several years, then decline after Hitler came to power. Two years ago he decided to publish some of the same books and some new ones for French and English-speaking countries. Printing first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because...
Peopled with the stock characters of a Western thriller, Boom Town is notable for this realistic picture of its gunmen. The story revolves around Frank O'Rielly, who stumbles on a silver mine, exploits it with a young Eastern assayer, gets rich, falls in love with his partner's wife. Knocking down too many braggarts and bullies to be quite real, O'Rielly is, nevertheless, an interesting sketch, although hardly more; he is too intelligent to fit into the brutal, amoral environment in which he lives, but even more contemptuous of the world of bankers and speculators...