Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless $25,000 is dropped from an airplane near Grant, Neb., on May 15, the life of Shirley Temple will be endangered." When Cinemactress Temple's father read this note in her fan mail three months ago, he notified G-men. Last week, by tracing the sale of the stationery in Grant, they arrested 16-year-old Farmboy Sterling Walrod Powell, voracious reader of cinemagazines, released him on $1,000 bail after he confessed...
...Firm-chinned Chairman Avery Brundage of the U. S. Olympic Committee got himself into the spotlight by putting Mrs. Jarrett off the U. S. team last fortnight. Last week busy Mr. Brundage had equally momentous things to deal with. First he read the Press a telegram from one Gregory Vigeant Jr. of Kansas City, which said: "Mrs. Jarrett's example to young Americans is deplorable." Next he announced that two boxers, Joe Church and Negro Howell King, had been dismissed from the team for "homesickness"' because "homesickness is a contagious disease." Finally, as a grand climax...
Boarding the Normandie at Southampton one day last week, President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp. dispatched to his office in Manhattan a radiogram as crisp as his sandy hair. Read the message: "Closed deal 30 minutes before departure...
...poetic interludes, called The Camera Eye, which show his own attitude toward the events in which his characters are involved. Like most works of fiction that are written in tandem, each novel in Dos Passos' series makes sense in its own right, gains in cumulative intensity if read in its place in the whole impressive scheme...
...salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street, the cinema - are swimming for their lives in the stream of the Big Money, fighting desperately against the current, sucked under or bobbing successfully along with the descending river...