Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio listeners first heard Harold Thomas Henry (Boake) Carter's news comments on a national hookup. Long before the baby's body had been found, Commentator Carter had become the British baritone Cassandra of news broadcasting, cloaking his accounts of daily events in a tone of dark menace. Last year a menace vague as his own rose over the Boake Carter broadcasts, has hovered there ever since...
Because Marjorie Post Davies, wife of New Deal Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, was a director of General Foods, there were dark hints that the New Deal had gagged Boake Carter, whose crusty comments have had a decidedly agin-the-government tang. But General Foods President Colby M. Chester is stanchly anti-New Deal. Last week, when it was announced that Boake Carter would say his last General Foods cheerio August 26, the rumors grew louder. Official reason for failure to renew the contract: The change from Daylight Saving Time would bring the broadcasts to western radios...
...laboratory Dr. Perry induced unseasonable sex activity by shining ordinary 25-watt lamps on sparrows much less than a year old. The beaks of the males turned dark and their testes developed spermatozoa; the ovaries of the females were swollen, contained numerous eggs. The scientist evoked even more pronounced gland changes with ultraviolet light...
Emma Tenayuca, dark-eyed little Red of San Antonio, Texas (TIME, Feb. 28), was nominated to run for Congress on the Communist ticket. Her opponent: Paul Kilday, who last month defeated the incumbent, rip-snorting Maury Maverick, for renomination. Nominee Kilday's brother is San Antonio's Chief of Police Owen P. Kilday, Emma Tenayuca's bitter enemy and twice her host when she was jailed for civil commotions...
...than astonish," Designer Gabrielle Chanel stole a march on her fellow big shots by opening a full weekend ahead of them, capitalizing on her noted simplicity. Near the centre line of fashion were oldtimer Chanel's wool frocks with ruffles at wrist and neck, forward or "profiled" berets, dark velvet afternoon and dinner dresses, strapless evening gowns...