Word: bostonianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Fruit Co. were holding a meeting. Down on the long table in front of his old enemy, President Victor Macomber Cutter, he flung a handful of proxies. Said he: "You've been --ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." The Bostonian directorate was profoundly and properly shocked. Nevertheless, before they adjourned they had created a new office- Managing Director in Charge of Operations-and elected Samuel Zemurray to fill...
Last week at the final 1932 caucus of the Government's "People's Party" or Kuomintang (TIME, Dec. 26), Dr. Soong, who graduated from Harvard in 1915, presented his historic, balanced budget with this laconic, Bostonian statement: "Gentlemen, the proof of the pudding is in the eating! . . . Our credit is enhanced, our bonds are selling 20% higher than last year. . . . The striking progress thus achieved offsets all hostile propaganda that China is in chaos with a tottering Government...
While Ouimet was squeezing into the semi-finals for the ninth time in his career by trimming Medalist Fischer with a 12-ft. putt on the last hole, another Bostonian, giant Jesse Guilford, was eliminating Chick Evans, title-holder in 1916 and 1920, 5 & 4. Ross Somerville defeated Boston's William O. Blaney 6 & 5 and Johnny Goodman, who unexpectedly whipped Bobby Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach in 1929, put out Maurice McCarthy...
...lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors are committed with complete impunity. She is saved from the consequences of committing murder when Robert Montgomery goes into court and commits perjury in a tactful, heroic...
...guard barred the way. They appealed to Curator Herbert B. Tschudy. He was polite but firm: they could copy almost anything else in the Museum, provided the copies were only of parts of pictures-but not the Sargents and Homers. When the Museum bought its Sargents from the bearded Bostonian, it promised that his water colors should never be copied...