Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been −−−−ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." Legend has it that these were the words of a hawk-eyed, six-foot Bessarabian Jewish immigrant named Samuel Zemurray who stormed into a meeting of the Bostonian directors of United Fruit Co. in 1932, thumped down on the long table in front of them enough stock certificates and proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United...
Into the artistic spotlight which remains jumpily fixed on Picasso's generation a few younger Frenchmen have lately popped. Last week one of these was introduced to the U. S. by Manhattan Dealer Julien Levy, whose eye is on Paris like a hawk's. The debutant was Rene Pierre Tal-Coät, a shy, husky, onetime Breton sailor, now 32, who has lived for ten years in one sixth-floor room at 5 Rue 'de Plaisance, teaching himself how to paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without...
...Lammermoor last month, and subsequent appearances in La Gioconda and Tosca as "one long crescendo of excitement," now spoke of him unhesitatingly as "another Caruso." While Chicago music-lovers last week were congratulating each other on this sensation of the musical season, Tenor Masini was being watched by hawk-eyed impresarios from coast to coast...
...altogether contributing much artistic merit to the pictures). Plates for the new edition have been reduced and reproduced by mechanical, sometimes fuzzy lithography. Nevertheless, the pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants in a voice "like a mourning dove imitating a pied-billed grebe...
...REPUTATION. TIMES'S NEWSHAWKS DENNY AND DURANTY ARE ON EQUAL FOOTING. DENNY MOSCOW CORRESPONDENT SINCE 1934; DURANTY 1921 TO 1934, LATER PINCH-HITTING WHEN DENNY ABSENT, EYE-WITNESSING, VACATIONING, FRONT PAGING. TIME'S OPINION DENNY "CAREFUL, FRANK." COLUMNIST BROUN'S OPINION DURANTY "EDITORIALIGHT DISGUISED AS NEWS-HAWK." DURANTY OPINION DURANTY "FACTSEEKER BEHIND FACTS." DURANTY OPINION TIME "ACE PUNGENT NEWS-PEPPER, NOW ACCUSED RE-MISSWARD SALT OF TRUTH...