Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retaining voting control. Many buyers were poor, many were Insull utility customers who thought their operating wizard could do no wrong. But Insull built his pyramid on the erroneous theory that it did not matter how much anyone paid for his stock so long as he was running the show. In 1929 the pyramid was shaken by the market crash. That it did not topple then was largely due to the resourcefulness and self-assurance of the cocky, onetime clerk from London, onetime private secretary to Thomas Edison, who went out and built a utility empire. He poured most...
...political scenes today is being played by bull-necked French Premier Edouard Daladier and hawk-beaked British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Their goal is to win over to the side of Democracy, by means of financial favors, those countries which, impressed by Adolf Hitler's adroit bluffing show of power, last year decided, or almost decided, to line up with Nazi Germany...
Thereafter, for seven months in Hollywood she did no cinema work, living first with Hungarian Ilona Massey, then in a simple, six-room bungalow in Beverly Hills, polishing her English, training her speaking voice, observing Hollywood ways. She swam, batted tennis balls, expertly-played her piano, stole the show at a few beauty-ridden Hollywood parties, to which she was squired at times by Rudy Vallee, Howard Hughes and lately by Actor Reginald Gardiner. When last April Producer Wanger borrowed her from M.G.M. for Algiers, it was discovered that she would require padding to fill out her bust -a deficiency...
Last week 40 of his best paintings were exhibited at Bronx House. Although 11,000 New York children study each month at 128 Federal Art Project classes in Greater New York, his was the first one-man show of students trained in them. Commented on warmly by Manhattan critics, it made a greater sensation on Washington Avenue. "Congratulations with your son!" said neighbor ladies to Mrs. Cohen, as photographs of Alfred appeared in the newspapers. With mild irony Mr. Cohen, who is a house painter, said that he could not see what all the excitement was about, since...
...Proof, this course is intended to promote critical thinking, differs from the usual study of logic by being entirely practical. It is taught by shock-haired, Canadian-born Dr. Harold Pascoe Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett starts with an ex planation of the principles of Euclidean geometry, goes on to show his students that every conclusion depends on assumptions and definitions, and, when correct, follows a concise mathematical pattern. His pupils then analyze speeches, political plat forms, advertising, riddle them full of holes. Not only did Dr. Fawcett's pupils rate high er than other high-school youngsters in tests...