Word: network
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five days before the opening of the National Academy of Design's noth annual exhibition President Jonas Lie gave an elaborately rehearsed interview over a coast-to-coast network, in which he announced the winners of the $4,400 worth of assorted prizes that the N. A. has assembled through the years. Nobody could see the pictures last week, but from the names and reputations of the winners all the U. S. art world knew that the long-awaited rejuvenation of the National Academy was under way. Except for elderly, conservative Frederick Judd Waugh of Provincetown, Mass...
...qualities as entertainment. Equipped with material which they could have used as the basis for uproarious comedy or stark horror, Scenarists Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin and Director John Ford contrived to do both without giving their work at any point the appearance of a tour de force. A network of subsidiary plots-the sad misadventure of Jones's maiden aunt when she meets Killer Mannion; Mannion's astute revenge on a rival gangster who mistakes him for Jones-are brilliantly used to make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous...
...writer bewails the lack of consideration shown to undergraduates by English 5. Although this course is intended primarily for graduates, over half its members are, in fact, undergraduates. We shudder to think of the network of wires (a coast-to-coast hook-up at least...
...week the pretentious, straggle-locked young Austrian, Adolf Hitler, emulating Martin Luther, nailed a list of 25 Nazi "theses" to the door of Munich's Hofbräuhaus, and Naziism was on its way. Last week the same man was in the same place, talking over every radio network in Germany at the top of his lyric lungs...
Broker Pierce had developed a genius for Organization. In four years he acquired in part or in whole some twelve brokerage houses, biggest of which was Merrill, Lynch & Co. Pierce's network of wires spread fanwise across the country, reaching into Canada. Soon the company was universally recognized as the largest wire house on the New York Stock Exchange. When Germany was on the brink of financial ruin in 1931, brokers chuckled: "Nothing to worry about; E. A. Pierce will take them over." All during Depression the firm gathered brokerage houses into its system, until Wall Street lost track...