Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the first quarter of the century the Democratic party was awakened by its metropolitan members to the realization that politics had become Big Business and Big Business politics in the U. S. Long before Gov. Smith's nomination it was known that he would refashion the popular concept of his party, perhaps by a preelection indication of outstanding businessmen whom he would ask to help him conduct the government if he were elected (TIME, March...
...Pittsburghers boarded a special train, sped to New York to study metropolitan airports, carry back ideas for Pittsburgh's new $2,000,000 landing field...
...shrewd bits of advice for merchants and customers would interest the thousands who work for stores and the daily millions who visit them. But such a column, now appearing daily in the New York Telegram (Scripps-Howard), signed by a young woman named Alice Hughes,* is unique in modern metropolitan journalism. Ethically inconsistent, U. S. dailies consume tons of paper in chatting about automobiles, amusements, radio, real estate, banks, all of which advertise heavily; but they have hitherto refused to give publicity to local stores which are the biggest source of advertising revenue...
...preacher should secure metropolitan employment as a taxicab driver and remain so employed for a considerable period, he would undoubtedly witness exhibitions of: drunkenness, misery, wantonness, gaiety, sickness, love. Were he fortunate, he might also witness exhibitions of: murder, robbery, rape. Since preachers sometimes have cause to mention vice, it is well for them to have some knowledge of its nature and consequences. Thus it might be clever for some preacher to perform for a time as the driver of a taxi. This was what the Rev. Thomas H. Whelpley, Manhattan Presbyterian pastor...
...Metropolitan Opera Company enjoys many unique advantages, none more noticeable than the prestige and humility which greets every pronouncement made by its Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Last week he announced plans for the coming year. There would be several premieres including: Strauss's already famous Die Aegyptische Helena, in German, with presumably Rethberg or Jeritza, both of whom have sung the role in Europe, singing Helen; Fra Gherardo, Ildebrando Pizzetti's new opera which was sung for the first time a month ago in Milan; and Jonny Spielt Auf, by Ernst Krenek, which is called a "jazz" opera...