Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company an act of public benefaction. It is superfluous to add that your company will benefit by this program from an advertising standpoint. J. HOLMAN EAST St. Louis, Mo. ... I believe that your sponsoring of "The March of TIME" will prove another achievement of the list now to your credit, and I am sure that a vast radio audience will ever feel grateful to you and to TIME for the instructive pleasure in store for them. . . . CLARENCE A. BARNES Mexico, Mo. Kindly accept my thanks for again inaugurating "The March of TIME." I think this program deserves a place...
...Cuba's aid last week President Roosevelt sent the best man he could find. his own Braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., the R. F. C.'s soft-spoken little rail-road credit manager, an expert on Caribbean law and economics. Last week in Washington U. S. sugar refiners broke out at a hearing of the commission on U. S. sugar marketing and accused vibrant Mr. Berle, acting as the Farm Adjustment Administration's counsel, of being "prejudiced in favor of refining interests in Cuba." Two days later President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Berle financial adviser...
...years as editor were the years of the nation's lusty westward expansion and of governmental corruption from Washington down to the meanest village. From his famed corner office, piled high with books and newspapers, he fought corruption with brilliant and penetrating satire, lambasted the Tweed Ring, the Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Ring. When Pennsylvania's corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform of widespread fraud. Before...
London newspapers gave much credit for the agreement to white-haired U. S. Delegate Frederick E. Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, whose "Minnesota Plan" has saved Minnesota farmers from themselves by teaching them the advantages of diversifying crops. President Roosevelt holds him in high 'regard for another, more intimate reason. Publisher Murphy, too, has overcome a great physical handicap. For 20 years he was humpbacked, straightened his spine by special exercises...
...individual style. Even in so poor a picture as This Day and Age, DeMille's crowd scenes, his overemphatic tricks of narration, his kindergarten dialog, produce a queer effect of compelling attention without being in the least convincing. After seeing the picture audiences should be better able to credit the most recent additions to the Hollywood saga about DeMille. Back from a preview of The Sign of the Cross, in which the thing the crowd liked best was Charles Laughton's brilliant high comedy performance as Nero, Director DeMille whispered sadly to a confrere: "I have something terrible...