Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week General Hugh S. Johnson was well launched in print on the series of articles he started to write for the Saturday Evening Post the moment President Roosevelt accepted his resignation as NRAdministrator. In an impatient opening salvo last fortnight the redoubtable General raked the whole New Deal front, advising President Roosevelt to alter or reverse his fiscal, monetary, tax, labor, industrial, relief, agricultural, foreign trade and recovery policies. "I firmly believe" wrote he, "that, if steps were taken tomorrow to put the monetary and borrowing policy of the Federal Government beyond the shadow of doubt, this depression would...
...statement that Boston habitually permits the discouragement of "universality acknowledged art" is getting to be a tiresome bromide, kept popularly alive by hearsay, especially among those whose hunger for art, universally recognized or not, suddenly rises to an incredible high at the exact moment that the censors slash a play, and troubles them little at other times...
...representing Norman C. Norman. New to the highest court in the land, he opened the argument, choked over some of his words, swallowed others, was obviously abashed. The other sack-suited pleader was Attorney Perry arguing his own case, which he did with maximum brevity, maximum precision. Most embarrassing moment fell to James H. McIntosh, senior partner of the Manhattan firm of Alexander & Green and counsel for Bankers Trust. With learned dignity he made his argument and, in spite of apparent difficulty in pronouncing sibilant words, came to his peroration: "If you hold this resolution Constitutional, Congress will have...
...smirk at the corners of her mouth, are past mistresses at handling a heavily dramatic situation. They are both quite at home in The Old Maid, for that opus narrows down into a cat-&-cat fight between the cousins over a daughter whom Charlotte in an unguarded moment had by an artist whom Delia loved but did not wait to marry...
...Earhart's solo flight from Honolulu to the U. S. last week could not have been more perfectly timed. A weekend recess in the Hauptmann trial cleared the front pages of the U. S. Press for a good spot-news story. To fill that void at that conspicuous moment was a bit of showmanship of which Publicist Putnam might well have been proud...