Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politically Mayor Walker has a beautiful stage setup. The Brown Derby has gone over the hill in defeat and, with it, the influence of a "New" Tammany in New York Democratic politics. No longer are there fatherly scoldings from Albany, stern advice to "cut the nonsense and get to work." Mayor Walker, in full command, has placed his own man, John Francis Curry, at the head of Tammany Hall (TIME, May 6). Only one issue has really stirred the sluggish depths of New York's electorate-the price it must pay for a subway ride. Mayor Walker won that...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. may yet become a governor," said a press despatch from Washington last week. The governorship meant was not that of New York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that...
...diamond thieves, one of them a woman, and the kidnaped manager of the Crown Diamond mines, get thirsty in an oxcart. Suspense, provided by the problem of how Gilbert is to get both diamonds and woman, gathers smoothly and almost originally, until the star embraces Mary Nolan in the mine office and Ernest Torrence is led off to jail. Best shot: Torrence lulling the suspicions of the mine employes when a steam-alarm goes off as he is robbing the safe...
...Zinoviev account of Berlin's May Day, it was the Social Democrats in the German Government who precipitated the police attack, not the Communists who invited it. The Social Democrats, boasted Bomb Boy Zinoviev, fear that the Communist Party is growing in Germany, fear it will get out of hand...
...risk more yet and have a cinema Skippy. The result so far, however, is only added testimony to Skippy's greatness. In spite of a Plot and a Social Thesis, which Mr. Crosby has introduced because most novels have them, Skippy stays about the same. He does not get selfconscious, as proved by the fact that in 335 pages he only utters once the phrase for which he is most famed, "Always belittlin...