Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago a high-school instructor named John Thomas Scopes ambled into the drugstore at Dayton. Tenn. There he met his friend George W. Rappelyea, chemist and coal man. Outside a rickety old Ford rattled down the dusty main street of the village (pop. 1705). The Cumberland hills beyond drew a green circle around Dayton's early summer stagnation. Perched on soda fountain stools, Rappelyea and Scopes discussed the State's month-old law against teaching evolution. They both believed in the theory, loudly agreed the new statute was ''damn nonsense." Lounging oldsters pricked up their...
...summer. Chief Justice Hughes prepared to sail for a vacation at Palermo. Justice Holmes returned to his home at Beverly Farms, Mass, to read and rest. Justice Brandeis hurried away to his sum mer cottage at Chatham near Cape Cod. The golf courses about Buena Vista Spring, Pa. drew Justice Butler. Justice Stone waited for warmer weather before going to fish on his own private island near Isle au Haut off the coast of Maine. Justice Sutherland will spend the summer quietly at Burlingame, Calif. Justice Roberts will farm strenuously at Phoenixville, Pa. Justice Van Devanter is planning a trip...
...would be inexact to say that Lionel Barrymore steals this picture from Norma Shearer, but the role of Jan Ashe is certainly less well suited to her crisp and brilliant personality than others she has played in recently (Let Us Be Gay, The Divorcee, Strangers May Kiss). Barrymore drew a fat part - his first since he decided to be a director two years ago -and made the most of it. The vogue of Norma Shearer may not be enhanced by A Free Soul but it shows no sign of waning. As talking pictures emerged from the stage of experiment...
...corporations, holding companies, investment trusts, realty developments. His domain spread into Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina. Self-confident, ambitious, no financial scheme was too big for him to tackle. He believed in the economic destiny of the South, sought to force its maturity. To his aid he drew Col. Lea, an experienced politician and publicist. Together they bought newspapers, extended their holdings, yearned for more power. Times were good. They borrowed heavily for fresh expansions, pyramided one new financial structure on top of another. Needing a friend at Nashville they "adopted" Governor Horton, insured his election with their...
...Half a dozen other speakers at the National Foreign Trade Council convention in Manhattan last week sided with him. From his bountiful cornucopia of good cheer Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, poured reassuring Tariff figures with which to uphold the Hoover Administration. When the Council adjourned and drew up its annual, lengthy, vague resolution, the fighting word "tariff" did not appear...