Word: rovings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accept TIME. Seeing his letter today (Sunday), and remembering his pretty gift for snappy sermon titles, I was moved to note tonight's offering on his billboard. Well, he will particularize "A Kiss That Didn't Count." That should catch many a hesitant eye tempted to rove among the bathing beauties of nearby Lake Harriet. It's hot here in July, too, so every automobile is a competitor. True, he gives fair warning that the kiss didn't count. Perhaps that's what makes everything all right. DONALD HARRIS...
...Standard of New Jersey. Each agreed to keep out of the other's backyard. The backyards became less clearly defined when huge, puissant Standard Oil of New Jersey chafed under restrictions limiting its domestic retail market while non-Rockefeller competitors like Texaco and British-controlled Shell could rove the whole union. In 1929 President Walter C. Teagle stepped out of bounds to acquire a company (Beacon Oil) with retail outlets in New England, province of Standard of New York (now Socony-Vacuum). Last month he put a subsidiary, Esso, Inc., on the heels of Edward G. Seubert of Standard...
...Correspondent Duranty leaves his Moscow job about April 1, to rove for the Times wherever he chooses for as long as he chooses. Fourteen years of alert, thoroughgoing work in Russia have made him the Times' most valuable foreign correspondent, but hard Muscovite winters and office routine have frayed his nerves, pained his footless leg. His successor will be able Harold Norman Dennv, longtime TIME...
...beaten man but his friends marvel at his fortitude and lack of bitterness. Thin-skinned, he has learned to shrug off criticism with a philosophy described as "almost oriental in its calm." No longer do his fingers drum a nervous tattoo on his chair arm or his eyes rove the floor. He talks in a low, steady, less querulous voice. His words are weighted with patient resignation...