Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Section 7a was written into the National Industrial Recovery Act two years ago, observers agreed that A. F. of L., whose membership had declined 38% since its peak in 1920, had been handed something very handsome on a silver platter. What neither William Green nor his lieutenants foresaw was that in guaranteeing all workers the right to organize, the Federal Government could not guarantee to organize them for A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. would have to show a little ability on its own account. Despite the fact that A. F. of L. elaborately pretended...
...palaces with the abandon of a moppet tired of its toys. Awaiting royal audience, a distinguished visitor was lately amazed to observe half a dozen valuable orders of various nations strewn haphazard about the antechamber. Mused His Majesty, as the audience began in a room hung with scores of silver platters, crammed with hundreds of silver bowls and tankards: "This is the Silver Room...
Eleven members of the Harvard Ski Club left yesterday for Hanover to participate in Dartmouth's silver anniversary carnival today and tomorrow. Three of these men are scheduled to compete in the jumping events while the other eight are entered in the downhill, slalom, and relay races...
...such men as these should be locked in the insane asylum." Another addressed itself to U. S. bankers, college presidents. Senators, Governors and Mayors who have in times past visited Mexico City, been received by Governor Saenz, fêted and presented with a souvenir sombrero made with pure silver. "If any of you," Frente á Frente wound up, "have been presented with one of these pure silver 'charro sombreros' and take pride in showing it to your friends as the most wonderful souvenir from old romantic Mexico, maybe after reading this article you will...
...Asked, as it often is, why it should venture beyond the publishing field into the cinema field, TIME replies that all news is its province, regardless of the method of presenting it to the public. Syndicated journalism may have eliminated the silver-tongued reporters of the Frank Ward O'Malley and Richard Harding Davis schools. In their place, modernism has given the talking cinema to journalism. The March of Time is contemporary history on the screen, welcomed by the industry as a new pattern for pointing up new ideas in the treatment of news, the cineman's cinema...