Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington Mellon's lawyers produced experts to drum home the undoubted fact that the five pictures are valuable. Baron Duveen of Millbank, probably the world's richest art dealer, agreed to the identity of the five pictures...
...suit to oust Chairman Archie Moulton Andrews from Hupp Motor Car Corp. (TIME, March 11). At the suggestion of a Federal judge in Detroit the warring factions settled on a board consisting of one-half pro-Andrews directors, one-half anti-Andrews. Named as president was Vern R. Drum, oldtime Chrysler man who has lately been Hupp's production manager. Meantime in Washington in hearings on the New York Stock Exchange's request for permission to de-list Hupp stock, the Securities & Exchange Commission continued to quiz Promoter Andrews on his involved Hupp contracts, one of which SECounsel...
...tone or his implications; neither will radicals. Between the Yes & No of Communism and Capitalism he preserves a catalytic neutrality. Neither McGafferty nor the angry unemployed speak for their author, who saves his thunder for the last line, shouted by the chorus: "Man's fate is a drum...
Last week with all the publicity that a U. S. President and two of his Cabinet can drum up, the Treasury launched its drive to distribute government bonds among private investors. In the Oval Room of the White House before floodlights and newsreel cameras Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Postmaster General Farley put on a little act which in thousands of cinemansions throughout the land shows President Roosevelt buying the first "baby bonds." They were the "salesmen"; the President the "prospect...
...Yale bandleader dropped his baton. The Harvard bass drum tipped over at a crucial moment. Incongruous in the smart Bowl crowd were two members of a traveling circus, a giant and a midget in a tall silk hat. In the interval after the third period, a spectator ran the length of the field, threw his hat over the Harvard goal posts, snickered at the crowd...