Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hodgepodge of 300 anti-Chamberlainites, including Conservative and Liberal M.P.s, Communist Party members and editors of the liberal News Chronicle, set in motion the first all-party united front against the Chamberlain policies. Moving spirits behind the meeting were: its chairman, tall, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), son-in-law of Winston Churchill and, like him, an independent Conservative; Randolph Churchill, florid son of Winston, who has tried and failed three times to enter Parliament; Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl, insurgent Conservative who was recently defeated for re-election to the House of Commons; Vernon Bartlett, News Chronicle correspondent...
...date and effective way of letting the people know how their money is spent. Just how much expense and ballyhoo is justifiable in passing out such information is the main point at issue. There is another point: since 1913 there has been a U. S. law forbidding any Federal agency to hire a "publicity expert" without a specific appropriation...
Despite Republicans and the law, the administration of Franklin Roosevelt has hired many more publicity experts (without asking for special appropriations) than any other in U. S. history.* Their titles and pay range from "Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury" at $10,000 a year to a "WPA writer" at $1,200. Most of them appear in the official register as "information chiefs" or "assistants," and they do not like to be called pressagents...
...characters as rowdy and ribald as Grandma, the play would blow the audience into the middle of next year. But the rest of the family, if unconventional, are given to normal moments of joy and sorrow. After mixing Grandma's outrageous antics with her son-in-law's gruesome suicide and her granddaughter's rocky romance, The Primrose Path fails to come off as well as it might. For, though humor and pathos make the best of friends, realism and farce are immemorial foes...
...thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...