Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When British publishers spoke of "The Great Eight" they meant the Graphic, Illustrated London News, Sphere, Sketch, Tatler, Bystander, Britannia & Eve, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News-all published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. Last week the eight were reduced to-seven. Instead of their weekly copies of the Graphic, U. S. subscribers received instead notice that the famed 62-year-old paper was no more...
...Reynolds campaign was greatly helped when on the eve of the North Carolina run-off the Democratic party in Chicago adopted a Repeal plank. Mr. Reynolds stood squarely on that plank. Senator Morrison stepped off, fell to political death into the arms of the Anti-Saloon League...
This royal bombshell, exploded on the eve of the Imperial Economic Conference scheduled to meet at Ottawa July 21, placed the Royal Family in a most peculiar position. The British public has been led to hope and expect that at Ottawa a tariff wall would be thrown up around the Empire with free trade among the dominions and with the mother country. Nothing short of a royal retraction could wipe out the fact that the Empire's heir apparent had placed himself squarely in opposition to this policy and had taken a political stand...
...purpose was to give moral substance and worth to the nomination. Every subsequent party convention has used the same rule. A thing of sentiment and tradition, it cost Champ Clarke the nomination in 1912, deadlocked the 1924 Madison Square Garden meeting for 17 days. Last week on the eve of the Chicago convention Roosevelt supporters announced their intention to abrogate the two-thirds rule, nominate their man by a simple majority. This rule change could be effected by a majority vote...
...estimate of Clarence Darrow ("Portrait of a Great Actor") by Louis Adamic; an account of the witlessness of book publishers; a behind-scenes political review by Robert S. Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph; bits of verse; an estimate of the late Ivar Kreuger; a revelation that cowboys on dude ranches sometimes make love to attractive feminine guests; a review of the wrestling racket...