Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cartoonist's best boon to citizens weary of campaign pomposities and profundities is laughter. Than laughter, few political weapons are more damaging. Manhattan's smartchart, The New Yorker, demonstrated that sound fact this year when, just for fun, it printed two political cartoons. They proved among the most effective of the campaign. One, by slim, modest William G. Crawford, who signs himself Galbraith, gave a new twist to the young mistress-old lover theme. The other, by famed Peter Arno, capitalized the currently popular pastime of attending newsreel theatres for the pleasure of cheering one's Presidential...
...from the fact that it was there that Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for four and one-half years. Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished. To novelists and cinema producers it has been a boon.* Agitation for the abolition of the penal colony has steadily grown in France. Succeeding Ministers of Justice have always spiked the move, but Minister Marc Rucart is one French Minister of Justice who has actually seen the colony. Years ago he went out as a member of a Salvation Army...
...Kiwanians. They went to see President Roosevelt, heard about crime from J. Edgar Hoover, listened intently to Author Will Durant (The Story of Philosophy), meditated upon a pronouncement from Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business that 75% of Government expenditures "fall within the larger definition of boon-doggling." They endorsed better housing, prevention of traffic accidents and opposition to "vicious" Communistic propaganda. For next year's president Kiwanis International named Alfred Copeland Callen, head of the mining and metallurgical engineering department at the University of Illinois...
...from the Commissariat of Justice. Comrade Andrei Philipov, Public Prosecutor of Moscow District, emitted the most startling hint. In 1930 was celebrated with great Bolshevik fanfare throughout Russia "The Decennial Anniversary of the Legalization of Abortion in the Soviet Union"-this always having been described by Communists as a boon conferred by the late great Nikolai Lenin. In Russia last week it was like the exploding of a bombshell when Prosecutor Philipov strongly intimated that under the new Bolshevik legal structure there will be "Prohibition of Abortion." Higher in the Communist hierarchy than Moscow Prosecutor .Philipov is the Public Prosecutor...
...interest rates have been a boon to financing companies, which borrow, chiefly from banks, a large part of the funds used to carry installment purchases of automobiles, radios, refrigerators, etc., etc. For this borrowed money the financing companies are now paying 1% or less. When they loan it to a time buyer, they get from 12% to 25%. That spread is by no means all clear profit, for installment paper means high overhead. Nevertheless, favored still further by a tremendous pickup in the volume of installment buying, financing companies are reporting record high earnings. Last month Commercial Investment Trust Corp...