Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Charles S. Ryckman, an editor of Fremont, Neb., won the Pulitzer Prize with an editorial arguing that the reason Nebraska regularly re-elected Norris was that through him it could take a slap at the East. Since then this idea has gained much currency, but unfortunately almost no Nebraskans subscribe to it. They do not mind political irregularity for they are themselves politically irregular, frequently electing Democratic Governors at the same time that they vote Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal...
...broker some months ago showed His Majesty an extremely complete set of pictures giving King Zog a good idea of some few dozen European titled women all primed to become his Queen. The 41-year-old King liked best the pictures of 19-year-old Countess Johanna von Mikes, a Hungarian. The Portuguese broker chartered an airplane, retained the services of two chaperons and flew Countess Johanna to Tirana just in time for King Zog to have her for Christmas...
...Mike") Cowles Jr. of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and Minneapolis Star had long been a publisher who knew how to put pictures together so well that he found it profitable to syndicate his layouts to other publishers. No magazine man. when Mike Cowles was smitten with the idea for Look, he talked it over with his Des Moines friend & neighbor Fred Bohen, president of Better Homes & Gardens and Successful Farming. Fred Bohen was so tickled that he not only gave his blessing but asked if he could...
Last New Year's morning, Al Williams had the idea of flying aloft before earthly dawn to see a preview of 1936's first sunrise. Last week he repeated this maneuver. Upon alighting, he sat down in the hangar and typed out what he had seen and felt. The result was a glowing little chapter of air literature. Excerpts...
...Alexander Hamilton" sent a letter to President Roosevelt by way of his uncle, Chairman Frederic A. Delano of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission: "Over a period of many years," said 81-year-old Mr. Mellon, "I have been acquiring important and rare paintings and sculpture with the idea that ultimately they would become the property of the people of the United States." His paintings and sculpture, said Mr. Mellon, included valuable purchases from Leningrad's Hermitage Museum, a fact he had long denied. There was also most of the peerless collection of Renaissance statuary collected...