Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corporate entity, such as is currently found most profitable. Then Keith-Albee merged with the Orpheum circuit of vaudeville-cinema houses. That made KAO, which soon had tight alliance with Pathe Exchange (cinema producers) very potent. The eccentric amusement curve was closing toward an ellipse. Joseph P. Kennedy (TIME, May 28) closed it by becoming K-A-O's chairman. He was already chairman of Film Booking Offices, cinema distributors and theatre managers. This was an alliance, not a merger. It was weakly tied financially. It was weaker than the Paramount-Famous-Lasky, the Fox Film and Loew organizations...
...experience of the past points clearly to the conclusion that prices are too high and must come down. . . . However, our concern is not about what may happen in the stockmarket...
...may look forward to the longer future with confidence, but the great rewards of business and banking during the next decade will probably go to the plodders rather than to the plotters, to the calculators instead of to the speculators, to the thrifty and not to the shifty...
...strange a thing,?a mile away by now, it may...
...really is odd, this one-legged campaign. There is but a single figure [Smith] in it. You may hate him or you may love him, but it is because of Smith that you vote at all. A few thousands will vote for Hoover. Millions will vote against Smith. Millions will vote for Smith, too, but nobody is going to vote against Hoover. . . . During the whole campaign he [Hoover] has said nothing to hurt feelings and he has done nothing...