Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the President quipped that Electric Bond & Share's long-awaited acquiescence to SEC's holding company regulations showed that the utilities' "death sentence" was really a "health sentence" (see p. 56) a newshawk asked: "You wouldn't call it a life sentence...
...catch phrases are coined, a busy worker is Adman Milton Harry Biow. In association with Arde Bulova some eight years ago he put the radio on Bulova Watch time. Three years later, for Philip Morris, he took Midget Johnny Roventini out of a hotel lobby, put his treble "Call for Philip Morris" on the air. After 20 years in advertising, the same 20 years in matrimony, intense, jittery Milton Biow boasts that his two loves remain his business, his wife...
...they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists may call this wishful thinking, readers will hope that this optimism is as well founded as was the pessimism of their predecessors 16 years...
...Miller continued, "Every well informed person knows that this so-called Spanish Republic is not a democracy, but a communist state aided both materially and spiritually by the present regime in Russia." May I point out that the legitimate government in Spain was placed in power by democratic process in February, 1936; that of the 473 deputies then elected to the Cortes only 16 were communists; and that when Franco revolted in July, 1936, there was in the government neither a communist nor a socialist. The revolt, aided from the start by Hitler and Mussolini, did, indeed, force a coalition...
...view of recent incidents it seems desirable to call attention to a statement made by the Administrative Board last year to the effect that disturbances in the streets or in other public places as well as on university property become of great annoyance to the public and to the police and are likely to lead to serious consequences...