Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current arms program and the attempt to make a major issue out of foreign affairs is merely an effort to find something that will transcend party issues. Roosevelt realizes that he has lost the emergency support that made his first success possible and that if he is to retain control of the party he must appeal on new issues...
Oddest fact about 70-year-old retired Major General Sir Reginald Ford, appointed Chief Divisional Food Officer for London and the Home Counties last August, is that he makes his home in Brussels, Belgium, 250 air miles away. His is mainly a wartime job and he is needed in London only for occasional consultation. Explained Sir Reginald recently: "Heavens, man, I can get to London quicker than I could if I lived in Scotland. ... I catch the 10 a.m. plane from Brussels and am in my office...
Hollywood has never been notable for its success in reflecting major social changes. This study of a minor one is no exception to the rule. The story of Cafe Society is the familiar one of a reporter (Fred MacMurray) who marries an heiress (Madeleine Carroll). It achieves the almost incredible distinction of libeling its subject...
...powder, 77% wrapped bread; that 89% of rural women use face powder, 66% lipstick or rouge. Least used were canned soup (49%), canned tomato or fruit juice (46%), condensed milk (37%). For CBS, the interviewers found out that 80.9% of the families questioned listened to CBS's ace, Major Bowes. NBC conducted a supplementary survey, too, by mail over a redefined rural area, wound up confident that NBC's and radio's No. 1 attraction, Charlie McCarthy, is outhitting the Major in the bush leagues as well as everywhere else...
...loud laughs, as in all up-to-date humor, are few, but E. B. W. sometimes unbends to such old-fashioned jovialities as pointing out the difference between a major and a minor poet: "Any poem starting with 'And when' is a serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long...