Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Support Neither the New Deal nor the Old Deal." Questioned about a third party, the political priest explained that canon law forbade his actually starting one. But he readily admitted that a candidate was in view, that a platform had been submitted to him "through a third person," that the candidate had only to accept the platform and announce his candidacy to gain the Coughlin endorsement. The announcement, said he, might come any day from New York, Boston or Washington...
...parade of his withdrawing opponents, everyone realized that now the sprint for the Vice-Presidency was under way. First to the platform, Senator Arthur Vandenberg seemed to have the race hands down. It was well known that the Landonites wanted him, and the authoritative ring of his first-person-singular announced his availability with twice the hint and confidence of Frank Knox's self-effacing remarks about this being no time for personal ambition. Iowa's bluff Senator Dickinson, Maryland's fat Governor Nice, New Hampshire's unfortunately named Governor Bridges* and all the other favorite...
...still has plenty of timekeeping talent in the person of President Ralph H. Matthiessen, scion of the other GTI clock family. The first clock-making Matthiessen was a German immigrant with a Heidelberg education who made good with a zinc smelter in La Salle, Ill. He had an idea that clocks could be soldered together instead of riveted, at a great saving. In 1885 he founded Western Clock Co. near his smelter. His competitors called his Westclox line "lead clocks," but they sold faster & faster, and in 1910 Western made clock history by pricing...
...where the remarks of the court might be exceedingly prejudicial to the defendants. I can see where they could be extremely prejudicial to the Government. Every person charged with a crime has a right to a fair and impartial trial. Every individual who has a case in court has a right to a fair and impartial trial and the court, having reached this conclusion that the remarks were not only inopportune but not justified, at this time declares a mistrial in this case and the jury will be discharged...
...admired Director Hitchcock, wanted to learn his methods at first hand. After each day's shooting at Gaumont's suburban studio, he scurried back to London to appear on the stage as Romeo. U. S. theatregoers will get a chance to inspect Actor Gielgud (pronounced Gillgood) in person next autumn when, under Producer Guthrie McClintic, he brings his Hamlet to the Manhattan stage...