Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington early this week British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay sent the State Department a note announcing that, because the Johnson Act invalidates token payments, Great Britain would pay not another farthing "until it becomes possible to discuss an ultimate settlement of the intergovernmental war debts with a reasonable prospect of agreement." Same day Finland's Minister announced that his country would pay in full...
...Director Borzage's best pictures but it has the qualities of intelligence, honesty and observance which are indelibly part of his style. Douglass Montgomery gives a quiet, unmannered and understanding performance. Margaret Sullavan, whose brilliant acting in Only Yesterday made her Hollywood's brightest prospect since Katherine Hepburn, makes Little Man, What Now her picture. Good shot: Lammchen conversing with Hans while riding on a merry-go-round, one sentence with each circuit...
...sell & switch" racket: A bogus stockselling crew obtains the stockholders list of a reputable company (the ''leads''), hires telephone salesmen (the "openers'') to win their confidence of certain selected shareholders on the list (the "prospects"). Then high-pressure salesmen arrive to tip off the prospect that his stock is being "hammered" by bear operators persuade him to sell it, switch his funds to a new issue, almost invariably worthless...
...Perhaps he will try Drib Braggiotti, the Junior find, or perhaps it will be Fred Allan. Bill Lincoln is a third possibility. From the point of experience this year, Allan deserves the job, but Mitch is entirely capable of sending in the comparatively inexperienced Braggiotti, who is the chief prospect for next year. What's more, Mitch is entirely capable of winning on his surprise choice. By TIME...
...Stanford Junior to win the British Amateur Golf Championship was a novelty last week (see above). The prospect of a Stanford track team winning the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America championship was nothing of the sort. California teams had won for nine consecutive years. When Southern California decided not to send a team to Philadelphia last week, Stanford's Coach Dink Templeton felt that a "skeleton" team of seven Stanford men would be enough to take 35 points and title against some 600 of the best athletes in the U. S. Points at Intercollegiate meets are scaled...