Word: cosmopolitanization
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Died. Irvin S. (Shewsbury) Cobb, 67, famed humorist; of dropsy; in Manhattan. Kentuckian Cobb, Paducah's favorite son, was culled from daily journalism by the Saturday Evening Post's late George Horace Lorimer, capped his career with ten years (1922-32) as a Hearst Cosmopolitan dependable. He wrote his biographical Exit Laughing in 1941, after facing Hollywood cameras in several cinecures. After his death appeared a long valedictory Cobb had written a few months before. Cobb admirers thought it had elements of a classic. Excerpts : "When convenience suits, I ask that the plain canister-nothing fancy there, please...
...Cosmopolitan Railway. Arguing that sea power would decline as railroads grew, Gilpin proposed to join the peoples of the Isothermic Zodiac, minimize wars and "transcend the disharmony of world geoggraphy" by means of a globe-girdling "Cosmopolitan Railway." It would run through the three continents, cross the Bering Strait by car ferry...
First Lady. When the Hoovers moved into the White House in 1929, Lou Hoover was the most cosmopolitan First Lady of this century. She tore the executive mansion apart, refurbished it from top to bottom, much of it with the Hoovers' own money. She entertained on a more lavish scale than any of her predecessors. In Forty-Two Years in the White House, Chief Usher Irwin ("Ike") Hoover decribed a normal day's schedule: "A large lunch, a tea or two, possibly one at four-thirty and another at five-thirty, and a dinner of from...
...over the U.S. Magazine publishers were beginning to ration subscriptions in a big way. Examples: Hearst magazines (Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, etc.) now accept no new subscriptions, will take only renewals. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., publishers of 26 trade journals (American Machinist, Aviation, Business Week, Electronics, etc.), will accept only enough new subscriptions to replace subscribers who fail to renew. Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal) still accepts one-year subscriptions by mail, but solicitors take them only for two years or more...
...august U.S. Court of Appeals Associate Justice, last week wiped off the dust that had gathered on his club since he left the Department of Justice, and whammed it down on the collective pate of organized labor. The blow, wrapped in the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, was delivered with the same kind of gusto with which he had smashed so savagely at various A.F. of L. unions (building trades, teamsters, musicians) as harmful monopolies. His kick upstairs to the bench brought no heartier sighs of relief from any area than from labor...