Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Appropriations subcommittee chairmanned by Colorado's compact little Senator Adams, Alabama's gift to the drama tossed aside her blue felt hat, perched herself on the table and read a prepared statement. "Go slower, Tallulah," whispered her father, who sat in as coach (and whom she also hugged for cameras). But she raced on with her arguments-that the theatre should be helped because it yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows...
When Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, was considering an offer to go to St. Paul's School as its headmaster last year (TIME, Aug. 8), his good friend and old headmaster, Groton's Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody, urged him to take the job. "Jack" Crocker, like St. Paul's, is High Church, and Dr. Peabody believed he would be happy there. But Crocker turned down St. Paul's, as he had turned down nominations for the Episcopal bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week he got an invitation he did not refuse. With...
School officials promptly suspended 18 of Melvin Bridge's assailants, four of his avengers. A grand jury found Rosen guiltless, let him go. Baltimore's School Board started an investigation of anti-Semitic activities in Baltimore's schools; Jewish David Emrich Weglein, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and a 'group of prominent Jewish citizens followed suit...
...hour, five-day week, which they have had for six years. They like the immemorial company custom by which an officer of the firm stands at the front door of the plant to say good morning to them individually each day and to wave to them when they go home...
International Broadcasting Co. of London annoys the augustly uncommercial B. B. C. by spraying Britain, from stations on the Continent, with frankly commercial plugs for British products. Go-getting head of I. B. C. is Leonard Frank Plugge, a sleek and portly gentleman who got himself elected to Parliament from Chatham in 1935. Captain Plugge (he was a Naval Reserve and R. A. F. man during the War) not long ago bought one of London's best addresses, the Leopold de Rothschild house in Park Lane, and equipped it with radio and television in every room. Another house...