Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tapping out their stories, the baseball writers applauded Yankee Di Maggie's homerun and Yankee Gordon's seemingly impossible one-handed catch of hard-hitting Cardinal Medwick's line drive, but the headlines were all for Bob Feller. The dimple-chinned kid, who still sleeps in a nightgown, pouts when he is dissatisfied and goes to zoos for amusement, was at last recognized as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With paternal pride the experts pointed to the youngster's record so far this season: 14 victories and only three defeats (better than...
Advertising ethics, on which most big broadcasters and FCC already see eye to eye, N. A. B. attended to by formally expressing radio's informal Index expurga-torius on such subjects as hard liquor, "products claiming to cure," deceptive claims, overlong or otherwise objectionable commercials...
...President's jaw was set hard and Franklin Roosevelt did not grin at his interviewers. Most of the correspondents looked uncomfortable. The room was quiet as a church. The President broke the silence, made his announcement on neutrality. The questions asked him were terse and sober; his replies were concise. Not a word did Franklin Roosevelt say to Fred Storm, one of his favorite correspondents, about his leaving U. P. to work for Sam Goldwyn and Jimmy Roosevelt in Hollywood. When the conference was over the newspapermen filed out as quietly as they had entered, and everybody knew that...
...Four A's found the A. F. A. guilty on all but part of one count, revoked its charter. This birthright Four A's thereupon presented to a new union, the American Guild of Variety Artists, with a constitution all written. Day later, the Guild was hard at work signing up A. F. A. members. A. F. A. executives declared they would go to court. Sophie Tucker said brittlely: "It is all very amusing. It is very funny...
...Three U. S. utility magnates, Floyd Carlisle (Niagara Hudson and Consolidated Edison) and Wendell Willkie (Commonwealth & Southern), are lawyers Only C. (for Clarence) E. (for Edward) Groesbeck (Electric Bond & Share) is an operating man, trained climbing poles instead of chasing commas. Hard-boiled Mr. Groesbeck, who goes his own way, is also different in another respect. He figures that the Administration has the money and the power, that there is more percentage in trading with the New Deal than in bucking it. Last week this notion of his began to pay dividends...