Word: proclaimingly
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...annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association in Manhattan fortnight ago, two rival oases competed bitterly for the privilege of refreshing weary delegates. Not far from the door of the Waldorf Astoria's convention chamber, Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association lifted a banner to proclaim: "N. E. A.-WITH THE ONE & ONLY MAJOR HOOPLE!" Nearby, N. E. A.'s Hearstian arch-rival shrieked back in big black letters: "KING FEATURES- WITH THE ONE & ONLY GENE AHERN!" Purpose of the mammoth cocktail party whither this banner beckoned was to notify the trade that Cartoonist Gene...
...cultivated formality might well seem quaintly behind the times, but for survivors of the pre-War garden age she still has a nostalgic charm. If the stories in her latest book are not quite so cosmopolitan as the title suggests, nor her characters' quite so lifelike as they proclaim themselves, they show that Author Wharton's eye for formal effect has lost none of its cultivated keenness...
...maintain this speedup. When Stakhanovism was first announced, higher pay for greater daily production was promised each worker but by last week, in plants where Stakhanovism had been regularly established, workers found that to earn as much as they did before they must now produce more goods. Plans to proclaim February as the first "Stakhanovite Month" were abruptly canceled. Shrewd Alexei Stakhanov, who has said frankly that in the U. S. he would be beaten up by fellow workers for what he has done (TIME, Dec. 16), now receives as a holder of the Order of Lenin a lifelong pension...
...letter of condolence on George V's death was sent by President Eamon de Valera to Queen Mary but in Dublin, on the advice of Irish jurists, the President found it "unnecessary" to proclaim Edward VIII King of the Free State Irish. In Belfast he was duly proclaimed King of the Northern Irish...
...temporal of this realm, being here assisted with these of His late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor. Aldermen and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that the high and mighty Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David is now. by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful, rightful Liege-Lord. Edward VIII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas. King...