Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store for "disorderly conduct." Detroit, where the Sit-Down epidemic began, remained its seething centre, and Detroiters last week were getting an idea of what a revolution feels like. Timid housewives laid in siege supplies of food from neighborhood stores, being afraid to venture downtown. Guests at the big Statler Hotel got the shock of their lives when cooks, waitresses, bellboys, chambermaids and elevator operators, conventionally as dumb and docile as the hotel...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt moved into the White House in 1933, Marriner Stoddard Eccles was a Republican banker in Ogden, Utah with a reputation for success and a hatful of original ideas. Not until 1934 did the lean, intense young Mormon go to Washington to dig in as an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury. Within a year, to the vast consternation of his fellow Eastern bankers, Mr. Eccles was head of the Federal Reserve Board and writing his novel notions into the law of the land. He was not only committed to a strong central banking authority which...
Noel Coward's idea is that when success came to him, it was about time, and that there was nothing chancy in its coming. A specialist in unblushingness, last week he unblushingly presented the clever story of his own success. The audience found Present Indicative, like most Coward productions, an entertaining if not altogether endearing performance...
...them (Class Reunion, The Man Who Conquered Death) reappeared last week in a collection of eight short novels and long stories ay Author Werfel. The world whose twilight is pictured here is the old, pre-War Austria; the crazy-quilt empire of 13 peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea, one of the few who foresaw its inevitable end. Werfel compares this Austrian idea (a "slowly absorbing and digesting soil . . . organic") favorably with the American ("the seething smelting...
...LINCOLN MURDERED?-Otto Eisenschiml-Little, Brown ($3.50). It may have been Booth's idea, says Author Eisenschiml, but it was Secretary of War Stanton's curious negligence in protecting Lincoln that was really responsible for the murder...