Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your mention of John Claybrook and comments on his accomplishments in TIME, Jan. 17 is appreciated by his white neighbors. There is no man, white or black, in Crittenden County, across the river from Memphis, more highly thought of than John. What he has done any other Negro sharecropper can do if he has the energy and the ability. Few have either of these. ... In his case, as in most cases, the white neighbors down here are always willing to help a good Negro get ahead...
...theatre business, box office, as you no doubt know, is largely determined by names and exploitation. Therefore when quite a few of my patrons mention that they saw the reviews in TIME and have been influenced in coming to see certain pictures which lacked both star names and noise- I, and there are probably other exhibitors who have benefited in the same way, am definitely grateful to you and to your movie critic, whose writings are not colored by blurbs but are sincere and impartial and accepted as that by the movie-going public...
...impersonation, slapstick, and rough-house required for her. But since there is little room for anything else, this play can scarcely make or break her as a straightforward actress. For her sake it is to be hoped that "If I Were You" does not prove too successful. Not to mention a free-for-all including her, her wife, and the Irish maid, she is forced to kneel on the floor with the man lying on top of her, back to back and beat on the floor with a mallet. This is to cast the spell. The man weighs at least...
When I picked up TIME [Jan. 10] this morning to read the Post story I was disturbed about one omission. There was no mention of Larry Kritcher, the assistant art editor...
Doing his level best to avoid being branded an intractable Republican diehard, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg recently urged President Roosevelt to seek the item veto-power to strike out individual items in big appropriations bills. Last week in his budget message (see p. 19), without mention of the senior Michigan Senator, President Roosevelt asked for the item-veto power, added with unusual deference to the Constitution: "A respectable difference of opinion exists as to whether . . . item-veto power could be given to the President by legislation or whether a Constitutional amendment would be necessary. I strongly recommend that...