Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipowners was Chairman Tom G. Plant of the Waterfront Employers' Association. Bridges demanded higher pay, a six-hour day, recognition of the unity of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Chairman Plant demanded that control of hiring halls-the big issue in 1934-be put in neutral hands. Obscuring these prime issues were many other minor ones. When neither side would concede anything, the shipowners agreed to arbitrate. The longshoremen refused...
...Morgan was picked by Reynolds Illustrated News of London fortnight ago as likely to intervene with U. S. editors at the personal request of the Duke & Duchess of York (TIME, Nov. 2). Up to this week Banker Morgan remained scrupulously neutral. The editor of the New York Woman was, however, called on the carpet by Sister Anne Morgan and obliged to remove Miss Morgan's name from his magazine's Editorial Advisory Board because she objected to its having described the relations of the King and Mrs. Simpson in terms of infatuation...
...married Adolphe. Menjou, but then he was always drinking and reciting Shakespeare. Miss Faye is meant to be a personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those of Gregory Ratoff, neutral. But Adolphe Menjou in his decay is proving himself more than a tailor's dummy: a genuine comic artist. His rendition of the simple, high-minded inebriate is perfect...
...week. Having examined the "admitted or effective editorial attitude" of every U. S. newspaper, including the South's, with a circulation of 50,000 or over, she found that those for Landon had a combined circulation of 14,347,000, those for Roosevelt had 6,996,000, those neutral...
...Cynthia Hope's (Helen Gahagan's) grandfather, a die-hard Republican out to smash a pack of radical cubs at the polls, are lined up against the faction of Frederick Holden (Ben Smith), who thinks grandfather and his allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more than twice a year. For the lower orders he has no more reverence, observing that a hammer murderess has got exactly what she deserves-three weeks in vaudeville...