Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conceived and executed last December, tabulations of the girls' contest appeared in our January issue. . . . Nebraska's running the identical contest, less the approved credit line for reprint rights, may be explained in that their Awgwan ran both contests in one issue, gave a slightly different interpretation and one less "m" to Van Landingham...
...Wampus: full credit, after examination of the evidence, for originating "Mmmm" to designate general sex appeal. Awgwan went a step further, used "O-ooo" to define masculine appeal...
...reduction of interest rates which in many instances are so unconscionably high as to be contrary to a sound public policy . . . to restore to [farmers] the hope of ultimate free ownership of their own land."* To accomplish this the Federal Land Banks, under Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s Farm Credit Administration, were to issue $2,000,000,000 worth of 4% bonds, the Government guaranteeing the interest. The Land Banks were to swap these bonds for mortgages-a transaction involving little or no cash exchange. In the swapping, the principal of frozen mortgages was to be scaled down. This...
After the election Colonel Mann stepped forward to claim credit and his share of Southern patronage. President Hoover spurned him. Thereafter Colonel Mann nursed his grievance, appeared briefly in the news when he tried to start an anti-Hoover movement before last year's convention (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). He was heard of no more until last week- when he became a Roman Catholic...
...with Imperial Airways, the 16-page, 2-oz. magazine is whisked to Egypt, Irak, India, Africa, Palestine while such old-timers as The Illustrated London News wallow along on steamers. Imperial Airways makes a rate somewhat less than its standard 10? an oz. to carry Air-Mail Pictorial, gets credit therefor in the masthead...