Word: preachments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great novelty in U. S. restaurants are the little cards which read "NO TIPPING. Our waiters are glad to serve you without gratuities," and which usually add gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity...
...preachment against war, They Gave Him A Gun would be more persuasive if it did not permit the impression that experience in the trenches may have improved Fred about as much as it weakened Jimmy. As melodrama, it would be more effective if Director W. S. Van Dyke had avoided more of the cliches that tend to attach themselves to all pictures involving 1) soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals...
...speculators this preachment against spiraling prices was a shock that gave the stockmarket a fit of the jitters. But the President's statement that there has been an undue rise of metal prices and more rapid recovery in heavy industry than in other industry, was questioned by economists (see p. 77). Regardless of its accuracy, however, the President's dissertation marked a milestone in New Deal policy: pump-priming is at an end. So far as Franklin Roosevelt is concerned, the business of getting out of the last Depression is now subordinate to the business of avoiding...
...nose since last summer, it was Protestant Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of Manhattan. One Sunday last month prim little Bishop Manning left his cathedral on Morningside Heights, drove downtown to deliver a sermon from the pulpit of socialite St. Bartholomew's on Park Avenue. Topic of his preachment was lotteries and he was against them...
Completely out of tune with the Record's New Deal preachment of "Spend! Spend! Spend!" the advertisement was signed by William Randolph Hearst who had run it in his own 28 papers and 60 others throughout the land. With no outlet of his own in Philadelphia, he had bought space for his anti-New Deal advertisement in the reactionary Inquirer. When Julius David Stern, shirtsleeve publisher of the Record, saw it there, he picked it up, reprinted it free, used it as an excuse for another of his stand-up fights with a man whom most other publishers prudently...