Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's end, as Connecticut greats met for "J. Henry's" funeral, Republican leaders had no idea who among them might succeed the dead Boss. He had never built up a No. 2 man. Vice Chairman of the State Central Committee is a woman, Miss Katherine Byrne of Putnam. Like the Republican Party almost everywhere, Connecticut's was for the moment as dead as the era that produced...
...order to do away with competition of several Houses for the choice date preceding the Eli clash, the idea developed to have a combined dance sponsored by all the committees, and featuring the biggest "name" band at the time available. In addition, it is expected that extra entertainment will include a floor show and guest stars, to rival one of Billy Rose's extravaganzas...
...conventions. Purpose of conventions is to excite enthusiasm. Procedure is to boast as loudly as possible about lists of forthcoming productions. By last week two major conventions were over, six more were scheduled for the near future. From pages of ballyhoo in magazines, newspapers, trade publications, cinemaddicts got some idea of what to expect in the way of entertainment for the next twelve months...
...actor by inclination, who so strongly resembled the late Nero that he had once successfully impersonated him before the Senate. Nero's easygoing colonial administration had made him and his memory extremely popular in the East; the present government, with less flexible policies, was not. Varro's idea: to start the rumor that Nero had reappeared, then palm off his protege Terence as the revivified Emperor, thus stir up hornets for penny-pinching Cejonius. Varro knew it was a dangerous plan, decided to try it anyhow, to satisfy his revenge and political curiosity...
...Ocean and the East Indies. And the line between pirate and privateer was as thin as the line between hijacker and bootlegger. The scheme that led Captain Kidd to the gallows, according to Author Wilkins, was a technically legal venture in privateering. And it was not Kidd's idea in the first place. Robert Livingstone of Albany and Lord Bellomont, Governor of New York, concocted the scheme, got Kidd a letter of marque from William III and sent him out on the Adventure Galley to prey on pirates and incidentally make his backers some money...