Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Aloysius Farley last week transferred his base of operations from Washington to Manhattan, his job from part-time Postmaster General to full-time chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, July 20). Three days before making this ectoplasmic shift for the duration of the campaign, he announced the appointment of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great & good friend Frank Comerford Walker, onetime head of the dormant National Emergency Council and Democratic National Treasurer in 1932, as active chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee...
...State Penitentiary at Salt Lake City one dawn last week, hooded and clutching a crucifix after a last-minute shift from Mormonism to Roman Catholicism, Delbert Green was led out into a dirt courtyard, strapped in a chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired...
...galaxies, unimaginably huge, stupendously scattered collections of stars, are running away from Earth and from each other at a rate of many thousands of miles per second. They back up their assertion by catching light from a galaxy in a spectrograph, measuring how far its spectral lines have shifted, in a given period, toward the red or violet end of the spectrum. If the lines redden, that implies the galaxy is receding from the observer, stretching out its light-waves, just as a train whistle lengthens its sound-waves, becomes flatter as it moves into the distance. Every galaxy which...
...necessarily for war, per-haps for Pax Britannica to be imposed on restless Europe in the future. It was more than ever clear last week that Sir Samuel Hoare is now the spokesman of His Majesty's Government to the King's subjects on this greatest shift in British policy since the War. Sounding the new keynote, the new First Lord declared...
Active command of the world's liveliest newspaper chain changed hands this week with a characteristic minimum of fuss & feathers. Robert Paine Scripps, controlling stockholder of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, announced that William Waller Hawkins was succeeding Roy Wilson Howard as board chairman. For Mr. Hawkins the shift was not only a hard-earned promotion but the fulfillment of a precedent which has become part of U. S. journalistic tradition. For 30 years, as Bill Hawkins and Roy Howard have climbed the publishing ladder, Big Bill has repeatedly helped boost his little friend up a rung, then succeeded...