Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December a plump, middle-aged Mexican song writer, Maria Grever, lay bedridden with a serious face infection. Hypodermic injections by an attending physician made her feel as if her bed were tipping. Forced to meditate on this seasick idea, Tunesmith Grever evolved the title Ti-Pi-Tin, composed a tune to go with...
...money in circulation has been falling from week to week for five months and since there was no sudden upsurge of business last week, most financial commentators at once concluded that this could mean but one thing, a resumption of hoarding. But Federal Reserve officials pooh-poohed the idea. According to them, one week's rise is insufficient evidence and may be only an accident. More likely explanation, said they, was the fact that sales last week were momentarily stimulated by the approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which was the week before Easter...
HELLO AMERICA!-Cesar Saerchinger- Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). First mikeside account of transatlantic news broadcasting, by the radio impresario who in 1930 originated the idea. An informative volume, packed with anecdotes that are frequently more interesting than the broadcasts of Saerchinger's celebrated clients. Illustrated...
...careful in convincing the public that what it is doing is right. In the first place more attention must be paid the public appearances of the undergraduates. For example, if the college were more careful about student testimony in the legislature, that body would not have its present inflated idea of the number of communists in the college. In addition to preventing such stupidly false publicity, the University must spread its own principles and beliefs with more vigor than in the past. It is good that the college believes in freedom of teaching, but it is very good that...
...action of Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty in having a summons issued to a Boston newsdealer who defied the police warning, Chairman Henry J. Smith said last night: "We complimented Chief Timilty because we believed that the issue arouses morbid curiosity in children." Asked what he thought of the idea that the publication of childbirth information might make immoral girls think twice, Smith replied: "Well, there might be something to that...