Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the War, in training as a machine-gunner at Camp Hancock, Ga., the rest of his life has been devoted to law and politics. In law he made an astute alliance with Ralph T. ("Dyke") O'Neil, past commander of the American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain, for two reasons worked up rapidly...
...members of the Empire remain firm in the conviction that we can best help the cause of peace by being true to type, by holding firmly to the policy that conforms to our traditions, by undertaking nothing that we cannot fulfill and by remembering always that, while our influence will always be on the side of European peace and that we will faithfully carry out our obligations to that end, -we are an imperial and an oceanic rather than a Continental power. Thus shall we best serve the cause of peace...
...vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends in formed of his activities in periodic news letters which he calls "Rainbow-Graphs." A firm believer in music as a religious force, Homer Rodeheaver lined up a number of young people in Korea, Japan and the Philippines in 1929, staked them to musical education in the U. S. One of these, a Korean who fortnight ago received a doctor's degree from Chicago Musical...
...Irene Castle McLaughlin, famed pre-War dancer who has become Chicago's most militant champion of abused animals, sailed for Europe last week. Few days later, to advertise his firm's Ideal Dog Food, President Thomas E. Wilson of meatpacking Wilson & Co. unveiled on Michigan Boulevard a billboard containing six live Boston terriers...
Little Miss Nobody (Twentieth Century-Fox). With Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and the Quintuplets under exclusive contract, Twentieth Century-Fox currently has a corner on child stars. This situation lays a heavy burden on the firm's scenarists. Little Miss Nobody is evidence to the effect that they are not capable of carrying it without considerable strain. It is a superannuated fable about peewees at the poor farm, a mixture of practical jokery, youthful fixations and hokum melodrama. Caustic little Miss Withers is most successful when, as the black sheep of an orphan asylum, she steals Thanksgiving turkeys from...