Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slack year for national heroes was 1929. The public prints lacked new and spectacular performers to make the public hero-conscious. But the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, only U. S. hero-rewarding organization except the Government, found no dearth of candidates. Last week it recognized 51 acts of heroism, more than twice last year's number...
...Congressional District adjoining Son Kvale's in Minnesota might offer a spectacular opportunity for the perpetuation of another father & son tradition in U. S. politics. From that district came the late Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh, father of official No. 1 U. S. Hero. The late Congressman Lindbergh left his seat in 1917. Son Lindbergh then lacked ten years of the constitutional age (25) for House membership. Many have been the suggestions that Hero Lindbergh should now attempt to succeed to his father's old seat in Congress. Against these suggestions arise three mighty obstacles: 1) Col. Lindbergh lacks...
...charter for the new Bank for International Settlements (TIME, Sept. 23) which under the Young Plan will handle German Reparations payments, issue Reparations Bonds. The Chairman's attitude: "We will go on until we have finished. This is a woodcutting job. There is going to be nothing spectacular about it and very little news...
Certainly there was nothing spectacular last week in the wilted mien of Belgian Banker Leon Delacroix as he went up to bed from the busy ballroom well after midnight. Nearly all the European delegates looked tired as spaniels. Distinguished M. Delacroix affects smartly upturned moustaches. Now they drooped. As he disrobed, the onetime Prime Minister of Belgium and the only original member of the Reparations Commission who remained a member last week sighed to Mme Delacroix, "Hélas, I am not so young...
...Marsters, running, passing, plunging, kicking star of the Green, leading intercollegiate scorer, All-American prospect and the most dangerous and spectacular man on the field today...