Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo, cut a wider swath by supporting 13 successful candidates for the State Assembly (including sober young Robert F. Wagner Jr.), besides a good share of delegates to New York's forthcoming constitutional convention...
...rising consumption of native U. S. whiskey. To relate this last-named fact to the cinema involved a statistical triumph of sorts, but the researchers of the Distilled Spirits Institute (formed after Repeal and headed by erstwhile Prohibition officer Dr. James M. Doran) collated the findings of its sober field workers, arrived at the conclusion that screen bibbers were shown drinking Scotch almost exclusively, to the detriment of an impressionable public...
Stettinius has just turned 37, has a big backlog of executive training. Son and namesake of the original Edward Reilly Stettinius, Morgan partner and U. S. director of Allied Munitions' purchases during the War, "Little Stet" craved a career of his own. Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides...
...Ghost of Yankee Doodle" Sidney Howard grapples with the problem of war and peace, demonstrates the impotence of sober liberalism as pitted against drunken jingoism, but ends with a faint note of hope for the forces of temperance and sanity, a note which is scarcely justified by what has gone before. A great newspaper owner, a frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play...
...that no such social upsets could possibly occur again in so well-ordered a world. Against this 18th Century background appeared last week two full-dress biographies of Poet Tom Moore. Author Jones's was the more tricked'-out in period furbelows; Author Strong's more sober-minded version was the better bet for serious readers...