Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote for Senator Butler next year. But the speaking continued. Senator Butler attacked political slackers who take no part in party politics. Senator Deneen of Illinois (successor of the late Senator Medill McCormick) preached support of the Administration. Finally ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, not on the program, was called upon by acclamation for a few Beveridgian words. But the President, having been elected an honorary member, had left the meeting as soon as Governor Fuller had spoken...
...Asked if he were satisfied with conditions at Ellis Island, he replied: "No, I cannot say I am satisfied with conditions, and I hope an improvement will come before long." ¶ By a majority of 127 votes, the House defeated a Labor motion to reduce the naval replacement program, outlined a fortnight ago by Premier Baldwin (TIME, Aug. 3). Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who originally was against the program, was forced to defend the Government's naval policy, and a bad time he had. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) reproached him for "arming when no foe threatened...
Griffith, greatest of directors, has temporarily abandoned the production of vast pageants for the more commercial program picture. This one is adapted from a musical comedy (Poppy) which gave him no master narrative. But he did have the master stage comedian W. C. Fields, and between them they have worked out just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year. It is a circus story of the little heroine brought up by the three-card-monte man. There is the rich Peyton Lennox for her later on. She is Carol Dempster and he is Alfred Lunt...
...postponement did not mean abandonment of Mr. Andrews' program. He has two eager allies in the persons of William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, assistant to the Attorney General, and Mrs. Willebrandt. The three are substantially one in purpose. It is supposed to have been Mr. Donovan, a former Army officer of the same type as Mr. Andrews, who induced Mr. Andrews to give up a lucrative civil job for a thankless political...
Scholarships to Berlin and Vienna, free treatment to poor patients and the dissemination of authentic literature would constitute such a Foundation's program. Last week Dr. Freud acquiesced, stipulating that a governing committee must do the work and leave him free to pursue his own work, which is from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m., receiving patients, writing at books until midnight (TIME...