Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. sometimes makes them cheese sandwiches on a special griddle. Sheffield milk, butter and ice-cream are served from the big refrigerator which adjoins the president's office. For these foods and many others are the stock-in-trade of National Dairy Products Corp., brightest star in the industrial milky way. Thirty-one directors sit on National's board. Among them are Jerome H. Remick of Detroit, longtime head of the famed song publishing company bearing his name ("Smiles;" " 'Til We Meet Again;" "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"); Banker George Franklin Rand...
...Play. Brightest event of the A. N. P. A. meeting was the dinner of its bureau of advertising, addressed by Funnyman Will Rogers. Twitting the publishers for their fear of radio, Rogers observed sarcastically: "If you hear any peculiar noise on the radio tonight it will be people breaking up their radios after reading a resolution adopted here today. If you really want to stop the development of radio advertising, either find a home-made cure for pyorrhea or murder Amos and Andy. Why, there will still be a radio in every home when people pay 10¢ to see what...
...brightest young men from our colleges," last week announced Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Morals, '"have been assigned the task of obtaining the signatures of 5,000,000 U. S. inhabitants to a pledge of total abstinence from intoxicating beverages...
...Pulitzers-Of all legends in U. S. journalism, that of Joseph Pulitzer shines brightest and most familiar. Dull indeed is the cub reporter who cannot recite the story of the gangling, weak-eyed boy of 17 who, though no "poor immigrant," shrewdly slipped overboard from his ship in Boston Harbor and swam ashore to collect for himself the bounty on his Civil War enlistment; of the taller, young ex-soldier who rode brakerods from New York to St. Louis, in whose friendly German atmosphere he made his way as a journalist; of how he married Kate Davis, daughter...
...Women's Republican Club, slightly charred by the great fire, the city's best and brightest people are meeting hourly to protest the rule of the "nine" in whose hands Billy left the city's virtue and the keys to heaven. The Boston Puritans, a strictly non-commercial ball team, has been organized to combat the menace. But they refuse to play the evangelical boys until they are permanently assured of the repeal of Sunday Baseball...