Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the government raise its heavy hand of regulation, the latter responded in two quite rash ways: Assistant Attorney General Jackson, with his political eye cocked at his chief, berated the "business Bourbons"; Secretary Ickes claimed that sixty families controlled the economic destiny of the nation. Labor opened its mouth first when Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., said that most trade union leaders thought the government had gone too far in regulating industry. The U. A. W., an affiliate of the C. I. O., declared that the solution to the present business recession...
Last week Professor Arnold's name was on the tongue of many an inquisitive businessman as well as of many a parlor economist, for he had written a book. Put out quietly last month by Yale University Press, The Folklore of Capitalism achieved so much word-of-mouth advertising that last week its first printing was being rapidly exhausted in book stores from coast to coast...
...conscious citizens of Danzig were jubilant. At Schichau's shipyard in the mouth of the Vistula work was proceeding on two great ocean liners, biggest ever to be built in the ancient Hanseatic town. When war came with that year's early harvest one had been launched and later was slowly completed, but only the hull of the other had been riveted-and after German workers marched to war, work on it was abandoned for nearly seven years...
...first five weeks, the play lost $3,800. Then audiences' word-of-mouth advertising suddenly began to change all that. Tobacco Road began to pay. Soon Anthony Brown, who had come from balmy Hollywood to direct the play, had saved enough to buy an overcoat. Henry Hull, then playing the part of filthy Jeeter Lester, found he could begin to pay the expenses of his Old Lyme, Conn, estate. After the first year's run, profits were $84,000. When Tobacco Road's second birthday rolled around, Producers Sam Grisman, Jack Kirkland and Anthony Brown threw caution...
...Washington, where her father was now British Ambassador. Skillful wangling won the consent of Queen Victoria, President Garfield's wife, balky U. S. Cabinet members' wives. A sensation from the start, dark, blue-eyed, naïve Victoria, with her heavy French accent and "marvellously curving mouth," did in Washington "exactly what she liked with everybody...