Word: endearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union is not alone to be congratulated. With the possible exception of his recent appointment of Professor Ferguson to the key post of Faculty Dean, President Conant has done nothing that will do more to endear him to the doubting liberals in the college world than his gesture of good will to the Union...
...test of a man is the fight he makes," is the motto that hangs in the San Francisco office of shy, chunky Banker Ashby Oliver Stewart. This is the sort of spirit to endear him to famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, currently facing the biggest fight of his career, result of an SEC crackdown charging Giannini's Transamerica Corp. with a false and misleading securities registration (TIME, Dec. 12). In 1933 Banker Stewart took over from "A. P." the Bankitaly Mortgage Co. Last week he took over a "large block of stock" and the chairmanship of Bancamerica-Blair, investment...
...most of his fellow brokers. In Wall Street he is noted because he writes E. F. Hutton & Co.'s market letters and because he espouses an unorthodox theory whose kernel is that investment as generally practiced is not as safe as intelligent speculation. This conception is unlikely to endear him to SEC interrogators but thus far has pleased his clients. In hectic September, 1929, just before ''the crash," Broker Loeb's market letter declared: "We see no reason to do anything but stand on the sidelines...
...Significance. These sidewise compliments to his host not only served to endear the Governor-General to the President, but to show how much Franklin Roosevelt had already endeared himself to Lord Tweedsmuir. It is safe to say that John Buchan as a politician who began his public career as private secretary to Lord Milner in South Africa, and served eight years as a British M. P., had met no more persuasive politician, than Franklin Roosevelt, or as a literary man, no more engaging listener. The result of the Governor-General's visit is, therefore, that when Britons...
...Burns who, from a face vaguely reminiscent of onetime Heavyweight Champion Jess Willard's, launches wisecracks in a drawl vaguely reminiscent of Will Rogers'. Three is a female edition of Joe E. Brown named Martha Raye whose enthusiastic display of her most distressing facial characteristic will doubtless endear her to that large portion of the cinema public which finds physical abnormalities funny. Good songs: Empty Saddles, I'm an Old Cow Hand from the Rio Grande, If You Can't Sing It You'll Have to Swing It. Good shot: Crosby singing a lullaby...