Word: cottier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration, and a chief cause of Roosevelt's resentment, was drummed up by Norman Hapgood of Cottier's against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. Taft knew, and Pringle proves, that the evidence was inaccurate. Taft stuck by Ballinger and fired Roosevelt's protege, Gilford Pinchot, for joining in the clamor...
MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman-Harcourt, Brace ($2). (Published serially in Cottier's as Sunset Voyage.) Swift skulduggery on a Japanese freighter; several murders, spies, missing military plans, a blackmailer, runaway heiress and smart newspaper man. Better than average...
Worthy running mate to Henry is a strange little character named Philbert in Cottier's. Spotted in the back of the magazine, as Henry was in Satevepost, Philbert also has scored spectacular results since his birth a year ago, will soon make his cinema debut...
Latest of "Candid Camera" experts is Reinie Lohse, a Puerto Rico-born Dane. Last January he was nobody. Last week his photographs were featured in six magazines (The Stage, Vogue, Vanity Fair, American Magazine, Cottier's, Town & Country) and he held a one-man show. The 200 photographs on the walls of the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, L. I. Last week were chiefly on theatrical subjects, all unposed. A tiny Contax camera looking like a child's harmonica, with a rapid-fire F 1.3 lens had turned them out the size of a special delivery stamp...
...autobiography in Cottier's, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney wrote of meeting Jack Dempsey in the ring before the start of their 1926 championship fight in Philadelphia. "I said, 'Hello, Champion." He answered, 'Hello, Gene.' 'May the better man win,' I said. 'Yeh-yeh,' he muttered as he went to his corner." After dodging and feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey...