Word: regularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since becoming President, he let his wife join in at his regular press conference, openly adopted her ideas and figures of speech. In massacring his "Great White Rabbit" (Lend-Spend Bill) and refusing to revise Neutrality, he said a "gambling" Congress had made two enormous bets. One was that private enterprise would do the job that Government pump-priming has been doing; the other, that there would not be war in the world before January. In one case the welfare of 20,000,000 U. S. people was involved, in the other, 1,500,000,000 world inhabitants...
...Elder Dempster (British) tanker Dunkwa, 90 miles southwest of Miami. Nobody waited to ask questions. Coast Guard cutters sped to sea, searched the calm Atlantic for miles around the given position. But no shipwreck could be found. Meantime, shipping experts ashore who knew the Dunkwa's, regular run, from Europe to West Africa, began to wonder how she came so tar off her course. Then, while the S O S's continued to crackle in, Lloyd's reported the Dunkwa safe in port at Rotterdam...
...perched high above Madison Avenue, Stan Shaw, with an engineer and an assistant, stands watch over two turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area, but some regulars click in from far-away Florida and Ohio. Once Walter Winchell, whose favorite selection is Star Dust, sent Stan a 794-word telegram. One mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections to be dedicated...
...much the same story, minus the sugar-coating common dividend. White-haired, springy, no geranium in the profane steel business, young (aged 38) Ed Stettinius is the kind of man who looks his Corporation's troubles in the eye. He announced: 1) that Big Steel would pay its regular quarterly preferred dividend (again better than 75% unearned); 2) that second-quarter earnings ($1,309,761) were about $650,000 more than the first quarter's-but only because the Corporation decided to cut depreciation charges by $700,000. Three days later Mr. Stettinius had no happier prospects when...
...sale of Emerson products. Then big Mutual offered to put him on at its own expense. Father Coughlin again demurred, explained that Elliott Roosevelt would be taken care of by his "spokesman," Father Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn's International Catholic Truth Society, on the regular Coughlin network this week.* Radiomen recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town Meeting of the Air on "Americanism" last year, concluded that the radio pries disliked controversy, or-more likely-that ostracism from the major network was too precious a jewel to lose from...