Word: heed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...branch has picked up 5% since his daughter became famed; new depositors often turn out to be people who want to get their children cinema work. Indignant at suggestions that he should quit his job to manage his daughter's affairs, George F. Temple pays some heed to her finances. It finally occurred to George F. Temple that the No. 1 cinema sensation of the year was being grossly underpaid. He instructed Fox that, despite a five-year contract, Shirley Temple would not start work on her new picture, Angel Face, for less than $2,500 a week...
...Henceforth the Supreme Court will fix rules of procedure in all Federal Courts- conveniently simple, workable, and uniform rules that can be changed without legislation when conditions demand. In drafting its rules the Supreme Court will probably have the help of a special assistant to the Attorney General and heed the advice of the bar. If, as expected, it does its job well, its procedure may well become standard throughout the 48 States, thus tending to unify and speed up all trials...
Next day as General Johnson made public a letter he had written to Senator Borah last December promising to welcome and heed the Review Board's findings, the Board served notice that it would issue another report this week showing "even worse" conditions...
...like period a year ago. The Dow-Jones average of prime railroad bonds was above 100 for the first time since it was compiled nearly 20 years ago. To silver talk in Washington and rocketing grain markets in Chicago, the stock-market gave scant heed. Behind this paradox of rising business and falling stocks bulked one large fact: the indexes of trade are written in the past tense. By last week John Businessman was ready to admit that the swift pace of the spring advance had definitely slackened. For the stockmarket's sorry performance inflationists blamed dollar stabilization...
...haired Kansan capable of tornadoes of indignation on the subject of art. When he published Men of Art the entire U. S. art world paid respectful attention to his caustic evaluation of painters from Giotto to Rivera (TIME, April 27, 1931). Last week it had occasion to heed him again when he published his long-awaited sequel Modern Art.* Critic Craven's second book, like his first, is a series of brilliant biographies ornamenting his chief theme: true art should be representational and born of a passion to interpret life. Such a standard automatically condemns abstractionists like Picasso...