Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus to public attention came a new racket which has been growing in New York for some five months. The formula: A "protective association" demands that the garage owner force his employes to join a "union," pay a $10 initiation fee and $2 monthly dues from each man's wages. Refusal brings attempts to lure away his patrons, violence to himself and cars. The racket is spreading rapidly. In Brooklyn last week four thugs tied up a garage watchman, rolled him under an automobile, slashed the upholstery of ten cars...
According to English correspondents in Teheran last week, the King of Kings has now come to realize how false and superficial was the reasoning of Teymourtache. Agents of Anglo-Persian may or may not have helped to bring His Majesty around to acceptance of Dr. Benes' formula by the usual implement of Persian persuasion, bagfuls of bright gold...
...because of any journalistic ambition, but because they sought an instrument for power, Bonfils & Tammen bought the doddering Post for $12,500, imported Hearstlings, doctors of yellow journalism, to rake the town for scandal, dish it up in dripping, juicy gobs. As it had for Hearst, the formula worked richly for Gambler Bonfils & Bartender Tammen...
...Forty-Second Street succeeds, it will not be because of its plot, which is the old one about a pretty chorus girl getting her chance to star and making good at the opening performance. The formula works out badly in this case because it is handled with cumbersome efforts to achieve atmosphere and because it delays almost indefinitely the best part of the picture, the show-within-a-show which the producers were ingenious enough to call, not Forty-Second Street, but Pretty Lady. The dance routines by Busby Berkeley are a good deal like the ones...
...Uchida Doctrine"-basically a pretension by the Japanese Government that they are competent to judge, without assistance from the West, what is best for the East. In Geneva last week Count Uchida's diplomats applied his principle. Acting on instructions from Tokyo, they refused point blank a formula for conciliation between China and Japan worked out by the League Committee of Nineteen who proposed to set up a League board of arbiters on which the U. S. and Russia would sit by invitation. Japan, so her Geneva diplomats said, remains convinced that she is right, refuses to be judged...