Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky's Bell County if you do not make a speech about it. It is even more prudent, if you live in New York City and are a writer with a flair for succoring the oppressed, not to try either. One who knows this now is Waldo Frank, 42, globe-trotting lecturer, critic (Our America), novelist (City Block), journalist (for the New Republic and New Masses...
...when other manufacturers were still dubious about the power of advertising, Wrigley believed in it ("Tell 'em quick and tell 'em often"), spent millions to publicize his gum in practically every country of the globe. He lost several small fortunes in the process. But the fortune he finally attained was reputed to be close to $100,000,000. In 1917 he bought an interest (along with Jonathan Ogden Armour and Albert David Lasker) in the Chicago Cubs, the money-losing, badly run National League baseball club whose members lived so riotously that Wrigley virtually took on the role...
Three Men and a Woman. Demonstrating that sex can raise its ugly head "down under" as well as any other place on the Globe, Three Men and a Woman is concerned with the doings in a lighthouse on Cape Forlorn, New Zealand. Why the God-fearing keeper (William Desmond) married his lecherous wife (Franc Hale) is something Australian Playwright Frank Harvey does not explain. When her husband goes to the mainland, she betrays him with his assistant (old Melodramatist Walker Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings...
...avoirdupois). He was a man who a year ago established probably the most comprehensive cartel ever set up to rescue a world industry from destruction by overproduction. Now, almost a year later, the industry is beyond all question far worse off than before; from opposite sides of the globe rumble ominous rumors of the cartel's imminent dissolution. Last week the man-Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne-on the deck of the Berengaria announced: "I am quite certain that further limitations upon both export and production . . . will be made." But he was never more confident of his plan's ultimate...
...States and Canada was held this year at Buffalo from December 28 to January 3. About 29,000 students representing nearly every North American college gathered to consider "The Living Christ in the World Today," the theme of the convention. American missionaries and nationals from all corners of the globe proved vividly the value of Christianity in each of their respective countries...