Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally rests on the bottom of the lake, with the gunwales still above water and all passengers high and dry. The lifeboat, however, which has come out to rescue them is having a hard time with leaks and goes under just as it reaches the side of the steamer. The passengers shout and cheer as the lifeboat crew are saved...
TIME underrates slightly Paul McNutt's home-coming in the eyes of Hoosiers. To us he was a conquering hero come home, king for a day, featured profusely by the three city papers (two of which are Republican). And why not-on a hot day when there's nothing else to talk about ! Synthetic ballyhoo still doesn't blind Indiana's majority to the shallowness of our self-satisfied Adonis...
...Production recovered sharply in steel, but there too the advance threatens to result in new inventory trouble. After an extra-seasonal July 4 drop, the steel rate snapped back first to 56.4% of capacity, then to 60%, its 1939 high, and the trade predicted 65% operations yet to come. This continued a June trend: ingots were still being stacked up in anticipation of rush orders from the auto industry late in the summer. After Labor Day it may turn out, however, that Detroit's fall steel needs are being filled...
...vanquished and Wendell Willkie deserves most of the credit for winning them. Other businessmen have fought tongue-tied and embarrassed before the Congressional committee, have sued in the courts and taken their licking. In the courts Willkie has taken his beating with the rest, but he has seldom come off second best in sparring before committees or in political debate. Resourceful, informed, more publicly articulate than any big U. S. businessman today, he turned committee hearings into promotion for his own political-economic doctrines. He emerged from his fights bigger in public stature than he went...
This "possibility" is at present mildly fantastic, but obviously Wendell Willkie is still going places. Into Willkie's office come 500 letters weekly, all urging him to keep up the fight, many predicting that it will wind up with him in the White House. On these Wendell Willkie casts an interested' but realistic eye. Stamped with anti-New Deal mark, he is still too much of a liberal to suit old-line Republicans. When friends ask him whether he intends to be a candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be a sucker...