Word: jameson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, Defendant van der Lubbe was beheaded, the others acquitted. In Judgment Day, all but one of the judges are about to be bullied into a blanket verdict of guilty when the Dictator (House Jameson) appears, encounters a sudden revolt, is shot dead. Even more boisterous and declamatory than Pulitzer Prize-winner Rice's We, the People, this sharply written melodrama suffers from one defect : real news events, when literally re-created in the theatre, tend to sound like burlesques...
COMPANY PARADE-Storm Jameson- Knopf ($2.50). Sooner or later most novelists worth their salt come to grips with a Big Subject. Fortnight ago Storm Jameson showed she has tackled hers. Like U. S. Author John Dos Passos (The 42nd Parallel, 1919), French Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will), English Author Jameson has taken the contemporary scene as her model. Like theirs, her picture will be years in the making. Company Parade, which merely introduces the principal characters, is "the first of perhaps five, or six novels"; her finished magnum opus will be called The Mirror in Darkness. Readers...
...charges of violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (TIME, April 23). The Government had claimed that, whereas Bishop Cannon and Secretary Burroughs had reported only $17,300 expenditures in the Bishop's 1928 campaign against Wet Presidential Candidate Al Smith, one contribution alone from Hooverite Edwin C. Jameson had amounted to $65,300. These and other funds, the Government alleged, had been used in Virginia and all over the South. "Bishop Cannon was shooting a double-barreled gun with a single trigger," declared the prosecutor. "Miss Burroughs shut her eyes and put her head in the sand...
...Bishop suddenly lost interest. As if it were of the greatest indifference to him he stared at the ceiling, leaned his head back on his hands, finally appeared to go to sleep while Attorney Wilson declared that the Bishop had collected $65,300 for campaign purposes from Edwin C. Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. (taken over last year by New York State's superintendent of insurance); that he and his secretary had reported Mr. Jameson's contribution to the Clerk of the House as only $17,300; that he had not only tried to conceal...
Jacob Aloff '34; as of the Class of 1933, William B. Bacon, Keith Famuleney, Walter S. Fox, Jr., George Fremd, Jr., Thomas H. Jameson, Ellis Jandron, Charles P. Lewis, Edward E. Mitchell, Valerio R. Montanari, James D. Reiher, Samuel Silverman, Samuel Spencer; as of the Class of 1932, George de F. Bissell, Jr., Spartaco V. Monello, David V. Smith; as of the Class of 1931, Paul A. Fullam, Frederick W. Thon; as of the Class of 1924, Daniel S. Holder; as of the Class of 1918, Hugh M. Hite...