Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were Louis J. Taber and Fred Freestone of the National Grange, who arrived to suggest a system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week at Bismarck...
...modern communities. This theory brings him into opposition with such writers as Briffault and Iwan Bloch, who have maintained that primitive societies were promiscuous and that the family, as a relatively recent development in human society, will eventually disappear. Dr. Westermarck says that he has examined the evidence in detail and has come to the conclusion that complete freedom in sexual relations has never existed even "among a single people," makes a strong case for his side...
...generation. Also last week the Harvard Forest joined the festivities with an exhibition that a group of trained craftsmen has been preparing for the past five years. Sixteen illuminated models went on view near the famed glass flowers in the University Museum. Portrayed in miniature and exact detail were the history and proper care of a New England forest...
...Method. With The Big Money John Dos Passos brought to a close one of the most ambitious projects that any U. S. novelist has undertaken. The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money run to 1,449 pages, detail the careers of some 13 major characters and a host of minor ones, picture such widely separated locales as pre-War Harvard, Wartime Paris, Miami during the Florida boom, Hollywood, Greenwich Village, Detroit. This trilogy also includes 27 brief biographies of such representative public figures as Steinmetz, Luther Burbank, Henry Ford, Sam Insull, Hearst, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, artfully spaced throughout...
Nick Schenck's M-G-M will buy from Joe Schenck's Fox one-half its Gaumont-British interest. Asked how much M-G-M would pay for this half interest, Joe Schenck dismissed the question as an "unimportant detail." After the Brothers Schenck settle that "detail" between themselves, the deal will proceed to a second phase, which involves selling Gaumont control to the British public, a detail which will presumably be arranged by the Brothers Ostrer. In the end, instead of Fox owning 49% of the controlling holding company, the Ostrers...