Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five months ago TIME discontinued its Friday evening radio re-enactments of news events ("The March of Time") because Time, Inc. deemed that continued expenditure of $6,000 a week on radio advertising was not then justified (TIME, Feb. 29). Immediately a flood of protests from radio listeners engulfed Time, Inc. The number of protests was not huge as radio "fan mail" goes (22,231 letters). But the letters were distinguished by their uniform literacy (chief sources: business & professional men & women, students) and their emphatic insistence that "The March of Time" be continued for its educational service...
...spoke, seen him so pleased and self-confident. Overwhelming evidence had come to him overnight that he really had the country behind him in a time and on an issue of utmost importance. The White House secretariat had showed and described this evidence to the Press-a real, continuous flood of telegrams, telephone calls and letters cheering for the President's message to Congress the day before, a sudden, sharp message calling for protection of the nation's credit...
...piston rods fresh in cellophane, that claptrap and falsehood in advertising neither arouses suspicion as to the purity and worth of the product, nor awakens resentment in the minds of the duped. If this is so no hopes can be held for any immediate change. But if the flood of periodicals mocking the accepted lies of the cigarette vendors are truly interpreted, an interval of relative honesty in advertising may be in the offing. In either case, gentlemanly perjury of the sort to which this company invited Mr. Lewis to sell his name cannot fail to draw the contempt...
...something to say. He intends to found retreats in New Hampshire and California. Meher Baba is supposed to have performed many miracles but now he wishes only to make "Americans realize the infinite state which I myself enjoy." His method of accomplishing this is cryptic yet reassuring. "Let God flood the soul. What...
...Jefferson Day dinner in Washington onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, firm teetotaler, proposed a Constitutional amendment modifying or repealing the 18th Amendment, ratification to be by a majority of the electors of three-fourths of the States. Two days later Bishop James Cannon Jr. approved the Byrd plan before a meeting of the Anti-Saloon League at Richmond. Day after that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde returned from the Missouri State Republican convention and endorsed that body's appeal that Congress call a national Constitutional convention on Prohibition...