Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid hushed silence Premier Leon Blum arose last week in the Chamber of Deputies and spoke for two hours in defense of his 80-word bill to give the Popular Front Cabinet totalitarian powers. "There is nothing to prevent us from profiting by certain experiences of the totalitarian regimes," observed this persuasive Socialist. "The German example is eloquent in this respect. The democracies cannot longer remain in a state of inferiority compared with the totalitarian countries...
...Catholic Worker has been Peter Maurin, 60, a genial, peasant-born Frenchman who, for the sake of his principles, gave up giving French lessons, became a laborer at a boys' camp. In 1932, reading two of Miss Day's articles in Catholic magazines, he discovered they spoke the same language, and hastened to outline to her his ideas for a workers' paper. Of Editor Maurin Editor Day says: "Peter is only doing what the great St. Peter called for - working for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein justice dwelleth." Patron of the Catholic Worker...
...Manhattan last fortnight, soft-voiced, grey-haired Elizabeth Seifert, winner of the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine novel contest, attended a big luncheon in her honor at which Hendrik Van Loon, Pearl Buck and other literary notables spoke, hurried back to her home town of Moberly, Mo. to start work on another novel. The wife of a refrigeration engineer (her real name is Mrs. John Gasparotti), Prize-winner Seifert won over 1,200 contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought...
Thereupon, at the bottom of the market, Mr. Loree used some of the cash to buy a clear 10% of New York Central stock. It was easily the largest New York Central holding. Railroad men spoke of the new Leonor Loree. But last week, six years after the purchase. New York Central stock was worth half what he paid for it, and Mr. Loree was weary of the game...
...left-wing study of early U. S. capitalists, The Robber Barons (1934), Josephson wrote of men who "spoke little and did much"-Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Collis Huntington, Morgan, Rockefeller. In The Politicos he writes of men who did as little as possible and spoke all too much. For the period after the Civil War saw the flowering of the spellbinders, the men who, when trapped in some snide deal, escaped by waving the bloody shirt, denouncing Jeff Davis, pulling out all the stops in tearful eulogies to the Union dead...