Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Walsh testimony: 1) Soviet trade through such organizations as Amtorg Corp. is just a lure to influence capitalist business and conceal "Red" propaganda; 2) Negroes are being dangerously stirred by Communist agitators; 3) strikes and labor troubles are deliberately precipitated not to improve working conditions and wages but to arouse mass discontent; 4) U. S. Communists are taken to Moscow for special training to become revolutionary agitators in the U. S.; 5) on May 1, 1930 a red flag floated over the University of Chicago for two hours; 6) no man may have more than 30 wives...
Inspired by recent correspondence controversy in TIME I am conducting stunt here ... to determine if Chicagoans go to hear renowned soloists because of musical appreciation or lure of great names and social ballyhoo...
...newshawks rush in and out. No telegraph instruments chatter. Its one-man staff-stubby, genial, bespectacled Carl Chandlee Dickey, onetime Columbia journalism instructor, an editor of World's Work, Mc-Clure's-has in fact little to do with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose to write and draw what they please, confident that the result will be the best type...
...entitled "Framed" fails to click. The plot has all the tapestries and bindings of original research; a little girl, who works in a Broadway Night-Club has a grudge against the police inspector who bears the colorful name of "Butch" McArthur. "Butch" has a son who succumbs to the lure of this revenge-harboring maiden; said maiden therefore has a splendid opportunity to send the revenge out of the harbor; nevertheless, she falls in love with the son and a happy reconciliation, consisting in putting several gangsters "on the spot," ends the picture. But for some reason it doesn...
...program with a glitter in his eye. Sometimes lectures seem just made for the faithful and even for a smattering of Philistines. But no such small-fry to-day. For once the call goes out to all Harvard men alike; there's no need for special interests to lure the elect when Professor Morison talks at ten this morning in Harvard 2 on "The Founding of Harvard College...