Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer President Roosevelt borrowed Mr. Eastman from the I. C. C. temporarily to become his Federal Coordinator of Transportation. And when the President started to stir up the market for capital goods, he asked Coordinator Eastman to see if he could drum up enough orders for rails to tempt the four steel companies into shading their price from $40 a ton (TIME, Oct. 16). Efficient Mr. Eastman promptly came through with orders for 844,000 tons. U. S. Steel's Taylor, Bethlehem's Grace, Inland's Block and Colorado Fuel & Iron's Roeder, the only...
...Private Life of Henry VIII (London Film Productions, Ltd.). When he has Anne Boleyn executed, robustious Henry VIII is in high spirits. He has a drum give the signal the instant her head rolls off the block so that he need waste no time about marrying foolish, pretty Jane Seymour...
...When the drum tells him that Catherine's head has rolled off the block, Henry is alone. More from force of habit than anything else, he takes one more wife, Catherine Parr, his children's nurse. She wraps him in blankets, looks disgusted when he dribbles in his beard...
...points out with deserving bitterness the irony involved when British soldiers were smeared all along the Dardenelles by British-made guns sold to the Turkish government, when Germany and France exchange arms shipments through Switzerland during the war, or when revolutions and wars are fomented in small countries to drum up trade for guns. It will be exceedingly interesting to see how far the Radical Socialist Party (which is very much more conservative than its name) can or will go in its attempt to control nationally the movements of war supplies. If every country was able...
William B. Tabler '36, the first Freshman drum-major the organization has ever had, will again twirl the baton...