Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collier's the President continued a series of articles defending his 1937 fight to reform the Supreme Court, his attempt to purge Congress in 1938. "These forces," wrote the President, "had tried stubbornly ... to stop our program of reform. They had failed. . . . Therefore, through the years of 1937 and 1938, their activities to impede progress and to bring about a repeal ... of the New Deal . . .were redoubled." At a press conference last week the President tartly rebuked a newsman for dragging party questions into the picture when the U.S. is in danger. But when it came...
There is nothing wrong with his age, says Father (Adolphe Menjou), that Leslie Collier (Miss Swanson) can't cure; so de la Falaise, Marquis de la Coudraye, in 1925, she became the first Hollywood actress to enter London and Paris society, which found her "less like an actress and more like a lady than you could imagine." Legend has it that Miss Swanson prefaced her triumphal return to Hollywood with the Marquis by telegraphing Paramount: "Am arriving with the Marquis tomorrow. Please arrange ovation." Gloria Swanson, single once again after her four marriages, has a busy and original mind...
Francis G. Collier, Little 34, received...
Today, with The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's all clamoring for Price drawings, Cartoonist Price has a hard time keeping up with the demand. He gets $80 and up from The New Yorker. His biggest money comes from advertising accounts (General Electric's "bulbsnatching" series, etc.), which pay him up to $350 each for hundreds of drawings a year...
...Bertie McCormick's title as No. 1 isolationist publisher of the U.S. was that his cousin Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) threatened to out-McCormick him. Pulling out all the isolationist stops, Cousin Joe and News Chief Editorialist Reuben Maury (who also writes editorials for interventionist Collier's) vied with the Tribune's bitterest, Anglophobe, Roosevelt-hating, gallows-dancing, isolationist editorials, cartoons and news. One News editorial played variations on the theme: "[The Administration] is accused of keeping the war scare pumped up to frightful proportions in order that it may quietly and under pretext...