Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain toes with resultant squeals. While one school of economists hailed Blum this week, another considered the Premier to be taking the risk of snatching away from French producers by his tariff slash benefits which he had just conferred by devaluing the franc. Apparently the Premier's idea was to keep prices in France from rising by letting in cheap foreign goods. He thus played the card of Devaluation in a manner exactly opposite to that of President Roosevelt whose objective was that prices should be made to rise...
...President's Mystery (Republic). One day last year Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked to Editor Fulton Oursler of Liberty that he had a good idea for a mystery story. Smart Editor Oursler pounced on the idea, got the President's permission to have it written up for Liberty in six installments by six promine Weiman, S. S. Van Dine, John Erskine. Last November the first installment appeared, accompanied by the President's picture on the cover, an article inside explaining the story's origin. A loud editorial coup, The President's Mystery Story was snapped...
...National League. When a squabble with Laundryman George Marshall, owner of the Boston Redskins, put him out of the National League two years ago, Dr. March wrote a book called Pro Football, which stamps him as the leading U. S. authority on the subject. Last spring he promoted the idea of a second professional league, which got quick backing. Burly, pipe-smoking Dr. March is currently its president. Most remarkable of the League's teams are the Yankees and the Tigers, both owned and backed by New York socialites. Owner of the Yankees is Broker James Irving Bush. Among...
...makes a news story from his patron. When straight news about himself is scarce, "Bogie" is likely to come forth with such a project as his proposal to promote world peace through voice culture, since animosity arises when unpleasant tones are heard. Mr. Boguslawski likes to toy with the idea that he may be the 20th Century reincarnation of Poland's Frédéric François Chopin. Agile and talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs in hot water...
...announced that his checking of readerships against the political bias of their newspapers enabled him correctly to predict the Congressional passage of the Bonus, the passage of the Wheeler-Reyburn Public Utility Bill. A Wall Streeter until his brokerage business folded up in 1931. Forecaster Dunn got his idea of tabulating putative editorial influence two years ago. The Landon prediction is in the nature of a public try-out for a weekly prediction which Mr. Dunn wishes to market as a "commercial protection service." If Alf M. Landon is elected next month, Rogers C. Dunn expects to be rocketed...