Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there occurred the use of a phrase that TIME so often uses in connection with articles concerning Colored children namely, "pickaninnies." This word is very objectionable to us as a Race and has been quite embarrassing to me inasmuch as many of our customers and friends have the mistaken idea that I either wrote or dictated the statement as usual he [Joe Louis] was surrounded by admiring pickaninnies and etc. For the benefit of those who may have that idea, will you please print the correction that I do not write for TIME, and that while TIME'S reporter...
Anna Jarvis is the 60-year-old Philadelphia spinster who invented Mother's Day. Whenever she thinks of what the flower shops, the candy stores, the telegraph companies have done with her idea, she is disgusted. She has even incorporated Mother's Day to help keep unscrupulous florists and confectioners from using her patented trademark for commercial purposes. But "nobody," she says, "pays any attention to law any more...
...idea for Mother's Day came to Miss Jarvis on the second Sunday in May, 1907, the first anniversary of her mother's death. She persuaded a Philadelphia church to hold a special service: in a few years every church in the land was holding special services. In 1908 the Governor of Florida issued a special Mother's Day proclamation. Before he died a few years ago he called Miss Jarvis to his bedside and asked her if he had been the first Governor to get aboard the bandwagon. Tenderheartedly she said yes, but actually the Governor...
...rest of Welles's story is all Mercury Theatre, but the Mercury Theatre was a lot of things before it became Broadway's wonder child. It was first just an idea, bounded north & south by hope, east & west by nerve. Crossing their Rubicon before they even started to march, Welles & Houseman leased the Comedy Theatre for five years, renamed it the Mercury, then started looking for their first play. When they found Julius Caesar, they started looking for the money to produce it. Houseman combed Wall Street, got dibs & drabs, enough to keep the cast stringing along...
...April 14th message to Congress the President asked for teamwork between Government and Business. Ambitious SECommissioner John W. Hanes, who last fortnight got RFC interested in carrying industrial inventories, took the idea literally, began rounding up tycoons by long-distance telephone. On the President's desk last week he laid a carefully phrased message from 16 of them.* Excerpt...