Word: idolizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford of France was by no means out, but no longer would he run his two billion-franc company with the absolutism which, along with mass production methods, he borrowed from his idol, the Ford of Dearborn. Andre Citroën has what Henry Ford mortally hates & fears -bankers...
...view of the fact that the subject of the article is an outstanding idol of the hero-worshippers, is proof beyond question that the author possesses that--which in the vernacular of the street would be termed--"Plenty guts...
...ignoble? Unfortunately, Lindy has been as mistaken in his analysis of the public temper as he was in his estimation of Roosevelt's naivete; the people are, in fact, damn sick and tired of these Clean Cut Young Men; Mr. James Cagney has been substituted as a somewhat bawdier idol, and even the self-conscious college rake with a girl on his arm, a flask on his hip, and a vacuum in his head is held to be preferable to young Master Purity. Roosevelt's rebuke to Lindbergh--even though it does smack somewhat of a teapot tempest--will...
Trotsky, "The First Fighting Jew since Judas Maccabeus" was an idol in Soviet hearts because as Commissar of War he had created the Red Army out of chaos and revolution and had successfully beaten back the White Armies of Russian capitalism. Stalin, after maneuvering Trotsky out of office by the tactics of political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally...
...character, the Lady Bountiful of the New England town of Sparta. But the things she has lived for-the family name, her brother, her father, the man she used to love-have failed her. She will be sorry to die but not unready. In 1930 the last of her idols falls. From his cheap French widow Sara hears the truth about her beloved brother: he was a wastrel who died a drunkard's death. In 1929 she sees for the last time the fiance who jilted her but with whom she has always been in love. A onetime ambassador...