Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...befuddled way, I think Ambassador Saito's last crack in the film may have something to do with it-"Xavies will be navies...
...Rock. He also finds time to travel abroad as a statesman, a taste which he acquired from attending Interparliamentary Union conferences in England and serving as delegate to the London Disarmament Conference in 1930. For fun he likes nothing better than to go fishing and shooting (he is a crack shot) with Harvey Couch in the Ozarks or Bernard Baruch at Hobcaw Barony in South Carolina. He created 3 sensation in Scotland by the bag he brought down the first time in his life he went out for grouse. And when he walks into his Washington office and hangs...
...Washington Merry-Go-Round (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). When his good friend & colleague, Drew Pearson, was similarly discharged from the Baltimore Sun for his hand in More Merry-Go-Round, the two turned their bad luck into fame & fortune by starting a syndicated column called Washington Merry-Go-Round. Crack newshawks both, their knowing gossip has made them minor political powers around the capital, while Bob Allen's pugnacity has won him a certain extraprofessional renown...
...State Supreme Court upheld Mr. Chandler in his demand that he be paid for his equipment. Meantime, Mr. Chandler had started his new plant, a six-story miniature skyscraper topped by an Hispanic tile roof, with the printing plant separated from the main structure by a 6-in. crack. Next the City Council stepped in, offered to save a retrial by a new appraisal which set the figure at a high $1,875,000. That was the signal for Mr. Chandler to do the handsome thing: he offered to accept $225,000 less and salvage some of his equipment. Bribery...
...Manchuria the Japanese regularly load trains with seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field...