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...Sheridan build-up began about two weeks ago when Lowell Thomas referred to the Lampoon's poke at Miss Sheridan as "least likely to succeed." An alert Hollywood publicity man saw his chance and got her to issue a counterblast at the Lampoon, and the big-time publicity began...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Authorities Balk at Oomph Girl Premiere at U. T. | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...meetings," deduced they must have included the very banking or management groups whom a trustee might have to prosecute. He advised the SEC to probe the situation "to the bottom." Krock blasted back, denying the inference, telling the Senator he had the sequence of events all wrong. In his counterblast, however, Krock revealed that Hanes had been recommended to the court by (among others) Homer Cummings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A. G. & E.: Round I | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Creation (TIME, March 25), who was killed last July in an airplane crash in Switzerland. ADVENTURES IN REPUTATION - Wilbur Cortez Abbott-Harvard University Press ($2.50). Brief but penetrating sketches of Macaulay, Lord Chesterfield, Queen Victoria, Cromwell et al. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, 1914-1917- Charles Seymour-FCounterblast to Walter Minis' Road to War (TIME, May 6). Its thesis: the German submarine campaign brought the A.E.F. to France. BENES: STATESMAN OF CENTRAL EUROPE - Pierre Crabites-Coward-McCann ($3). Sympathetic but second-hand account of the Little Entente's big man, by one who has never seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Sooner than that Daughter Nancy decided that Author J. G. Shaw was none other than Father Bedford-Jones in a fresh disguise and that he was talking about her. Her counterblast entitled My Father Is a Liar! promptly appeared last week in the Communist magazine, New Masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: My Father Is a Liar | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...shouted when the Governor held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill to stop the centralization of wealth, prevent the destruction of independents, save the State from wage slavery, keep open for posterity the road of opportunity. John Francis Neylan, Hearst lawyer, trumpeted the counterblast: confiscation, a 10% boost in food prices for those least able to pay, a tax on efficiency of distribution. "We have all lived long enough," cried eloquent Attorney Neylan, "to know that the men running these chain stores have not got horns. They are not people who chew up little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Chains | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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