Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill can be even harder to keep on the hook than the fighting tarpon. For as revenues fail and the President demands killing sums for relief, the prospects of new taxation are heightened--and at this suggestion the Congressional barometer falls. "Dependable Jimmy Byrnes" and long suffering Joe Robinson are both demanding cuts in appropriations and when these two stalwarts kick against the pricks we may expect wholesale defection in the Cherokee strip...
...volume edition of the poetry of Edward Arlington Robinson contains many of the longer narrative poems which have not previously appeared in a collected edition. One of the greatest of contemporary American poets, Robinson possessed a keen insight and appreciation of the human mind. His understanding of the spirit and fortitude of early American pioneers will serve as documentary evidence to future historians. His powers, of characterization, which appear at their greatest development in the narrative poems, the richness and resonance of all his verse, have caused him to be acclaimed by all literary critics...
Thunder in the City (Columbia) is the meaningless title of a story about a U. S. ballyhoo artist who turns England topsyturvy promoting a new metal named magnalite. Gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson plays the role in his customary Napoleonic manner. As genial Dan Armstrong, he lands penniless in London, bluffs his way into an option on the magnalite mines, installs a duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes...
Back to Manhattan last week went the traveling troupe of lawyers and court attaches whose task the past six weeks has been to ascertain facts about the domicile of the late Edward Howland Robinson Green in order to make possible the disposition of his estate, estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000 (TIME, April 19). Before tackling the 900-page transcript of Texas and Florida testimony, Surrogate Harry E. Owen of Essex County. N. Y. called for a resumption of probate hearings. More convenient for all concerned with these memorable hearings than Surrogate Owen's little office...
...that revenues for fiscal 1937 would fall $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 below estimates, the fact that Secretary Morgenthau found it necessary to resume borrowing, beginning with the sale of $50,000,000 worth of short-term bills this week. In the Senate, Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson spoke out almost as pessimistically as Hugh Johnson...