Word: getterism
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...bland assumption that R. A. F. units in France ought to be subordinated to the Army as soon as possible. In fact, what Leslie Hore-Belisha has been after is the creation of a Defense Ministry-with the Army, Navy and Air Force all subordinate to one able go-getter. This might be a good idea. But coming from Hore-Belisha, who so obviously thought himself the man for the job, it struck the British Cabinet as insufferably bumptious...
Macmillan, Reith & Duncan. Observers have expected for some weeks that Neville Chamberlain would gradually make a series of Cabinet changes and last week he followed up his unpopular ousting of Go-getter Hore-Belisha by a popular ousting of Lord Macmillan from the post of Minister of Information of which he has made such a mess (TIME, Sept. 18). To take over the Ministry of Information the Prime Minister appointed Sir John Reith, "The Man Who Made The British Broad casting Corp." and whose deep voice the world heard introducing the abdication broadcast of Edward VIII. A strict moralist, nonsmoker...
...cool, trenchant voice of Raymond Gram Swing, MBS's one-man brain trust on world affairs, U. S. radio's "find" of 1939. Some radio programs listed him under Dance Music, as "Raymond Gram, swing!" But last week Variety voted Raymond Gram Swing the leading "attention-getter" among news analysts and commentators in 1939. In U. S. homes great & humble millions cock respectful ears when Raymond Gram Swing comes on, five nights a week. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter is a Swing fan. So are Nicholas Murray Butler, British Ambassador Lord Lothian, Tallulah Bankhead. In England...
...wager Phileas Fogg, cucumbrous hero of Novelist Jules Verne's best seller, circled the globe in 80 days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...
...when Cincinnati's old, famed Gruen Watch Co. found itself unable to pay $1,800,000 owed to banks, the banks asked Go-Getter Ben Katz if he could put the firm back on its feet. Substituting Gruen debentures and preferred stock for the bank loans, he thought he could do it in ten years. Last week he appeared to have done it with seven years to spare...