Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week sold out to Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices, a brick mansion at the corner of 16th & Locust Streets which was once the home of the shipbuilding Cramp family, where according to legend when a button is pushed in the art department it still registers a call from "Mrs. Cramp's bedroom...
...equal standing in the Herald Tribune list. Before Red Star Over China had become a favorite in small shops throughout the U. S., it was among the leaders at R. H. Macy's in Manhattan (which alone sells 5% of the nation's books), at the Old Corner in Boston (which sells 1%) and at Kroch's. While the best-seller lists give a picture of the relative popularity of new books in different parts of the country, they give no indication of any book's total U. S. sales. Consequently, some best-sellers stand...
...nose. . . . Red with rage, Dave Lawrence, who the night before took himself out of the race, jumped into the free-for-all. . . . 'Now I understand,' he bellowed, 'why I didn't get the support for my candidacy from persons who . . . should have been in my corner...
Only one statesman has ever made the motor vehicle and everything connected with it a major plank in his political platform : Adolf Hitler. The Nazis have made almost a national festival out of Berlin's annual Automobile Show. Last week it opened with loud speakers boasting in every corner of the Fatherland that since the Führer took over the Government in 1933 the number of motorcars in Germany has increased from 548,700 to 1,108,500, motor trucks from...
...weeks after the first issue, TIME moved from its cubicles in the office of an advertising firm (just around the corner from Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed...