Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany's political focus next shifted to Albany where the Democratic State Convention is being held this week. In prospect was a hot fight between Governor Roosevelt backing Herbert Lehman for the gubernatorial nomination and Tammany supporting Albany's Mayor John Boyd Thachcr. Brooding over the confused scene was Alfred Emanuel Smith. Citizen Smith favored the Lehman nomination but he was bound by pledges of non-interference with Tammany's wishes which he had given at the Chicago convention. That the G. 0. P. would nominate William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan?Irish. Roman Catholic, an American Legionary ?for Governor...
...paid by a 50? levy on all members. A radical exhibitionist who claims to be "as poor as the rest of you farmers," Mr. Reno began passing out pledge cards wherein husbandmen agreed to withhold their goods until prices reach a level above the cost of production. First focus of the Holiday Association's activity was Sioux City where a strike began fortnight ago. More than 2,000 farmers picketed the seven highways into town. Produce trucks were turned back by logs and cables across the road, nails in boards, sticks and stones, strong language. There was some rowdyism...
...financiers. John Pierpont Morgan was grouse-shooting in Scotland, was reported to have had a secret conference with Governor Norman just before the Britannic left Cobh (Queenstown). Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve was at his country place in Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Attention came to sharp focus when Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont was discovered at North Haven, Me., only 35 miles from Bar Harbor. Two grave problems might have brought Governor Norman across the Atlantic: reduction of Europe's War debts, and the possible return of Britain to the gold standard. To all Press inquiries...
...gangster! He believes that when sincere temperance people understand his motives they will back his Crusade, since the principles he stands for are practically the same code of the principles the W. C. T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in short dresses." Focus. Last week Wet & Dry eyes turned to Congress, ultimate focus of their next big fight. There they beheld frothy turmoil over legalizing beer, heard noisy clamor for immediate Repeal. Beneath surface politics, however, was the solid fact that no serious move to effect a Change would or could be undertaken until after...
...with a faintly subacid humor. In pitch, scope, execution it is easily the most important U. S. novel of the year. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, a vastly human character who should walk straight into the U. S. Pantheon, is more than the central figure of the story. He is the focus in which the town of Florence reflects its earthen realities, its haunting bright potentialities. Left high & dry by the Civil War, before which he had been overseer on a cotton plantation, the Colonel is now of no particular account in his own eyes, or in anybody else's. Only Ponny...