Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nieman bequest, estimated at $5,000,000, was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. This decision defeats the claims of two half-uncles and a half-aunt of the former Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman to this gift on the grounds that she was "not of sound mind and under duress when she made the will...
...future involve their country in wars and assasinations. The leadership of newspapers has proved at times more potent than that of politicians themselves; at other times, as in the past election, completely futile. Always, however, it has vast potentialities, particularly for developing a new profession with a sound code of ethics, for breeding a new race of statesmen with vision...
...formed by nature as our neighbors and the bonds between ourselves and these several states were recognized many years ago by Monroe and others as being too close to permit either foreign aggression or internal strivings to go on without resulting danger to ourself. Though at that time, a sound policy, the far-famed Monroe doctrine since has lapsed into a form of economic imperialism which has aroused bitterness and suspicion within the nations involved. This antipathy has had its disastrous results in the form of foreign domination of the South American markets and the consequent loss of a huge...
...theme of news-pigeons in Rothschild, the semaphore in Lloyd's-recurs in Producer Darryl Zanuck's major works is not entirely accidental. Famed for his knack of translating headlines into cinema, Zanuck sees history as a collection of front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous might sound like a superhuman tour de force. Lloyd's of London, rich in the atmospheric detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business as exciting...
...acquiring theatre properties at top prices at a time when the public's desire for vaudeville was diving downward. To speed its entrance into the "talkies," RKO issued Class B stock (500,000 shares), gave it to Radio Corp. of America in exchange for rights to RCA Photophone sound-picture equipment and special considerations from its subsidiary, National Broadcasting Co., for RKO time on the air. Radio's president, David Sarnoff, became RKO's chairman, and Radio acquired a 20% interest...