Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Applemen love Johnny, although they deplore his cultural methods, for presumably he made the U. S. apple-conscious beyond all other nations. This year some 65,000,000 bbl. of apples will be produced in the U. S.-about four-fifths of world production and biggest U. S. yield in six years. This is a 60% increase over last year's crop. Apples come in three types (dessert, culinary, cider) and some 7,500 U. S. varieties are grown on a large-scale in all but nine States.† New York once (1900-08) produced 50% of the crop...
...could very well do something was Franklin Roosevelt. In his Commodity Credit Corporation's purse he had $135,000,000 with which he could peg the price of cotton at 10? or 9?. Long ago Congress had turned over control of that purse to the Executive Department. Cotton-conscious Congressmen squirmed and realized that they were the very ones who had stood or tried to stand in the way of Franklin Roosevelt's pet Wages & Hours and Housing Bills...
...intended to postpone their visit, they were going to put in a day near Salzburg at the villa of Count Raimund von Hoffmannsthal and his wife, U. S. born Alice Muriel Astor. Rumor immediately went round that the Duchess of Kent, a former Princess of Greece who is "class-conscious" to a degree, and a bit snippy about being "the best dressed woman in the British Royal Family," had changed her mind about visiting her sister-in-law. From British sources in Vienna next day came no more definite news than that the Kents were "leaving for Yugoslavia and would...
Zola becomes conscious of the Dreyfus case when the Captain's wife (Gale Sondergaard) begs his aid. All his old fighting instincts aroused, Zola writes his famous editorial J'accuse ("I accuse"), charging the army with conspiracy and daring anyone to try him for treason. The army takes the dare. Zola's trial lasts 30 minutes on the screen, with speeches longer than cinemaddicts are supposed by most Hollywood producers to be willing to hear. Zola's rhetoric is no match for the mass of lying evidence and the judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees...
...high-ceilinged office-auditorium one morning last week sat Philadelphia's Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson. Overhead whirred the mayor's huge electric fans. Before the mayor sat between 300 and 400 indignant Philadelphians conscious that right was on their side. A young lawyer named Robert Dechert got up to deliver a careful speech. The bulgy mayor listened, cut him short, spoke for a few minutes in a voice so low that the electric fan had to be stilled. Then photographers' flash bulbs puffed as the mayor shook hands with Lawyer Dechert and his clients, the officers...