Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep the issue alive from a news angle, Publisher William Randolph Hearst jumped into the spotlight with a demand that the court keep Western Union from giving up to the Senate Committee a certain telegram which he sent April 5, 1935 to James T. Williams Jr., Hearst editorial writer in Washington, ordering a series of anti-New Deal editorials. Since this telegram was specifically named in a Senate subpoena, Justice Wheat declared it could not be classed as an unreasonable search and seizure of papers...
...Hurja's value to the Party consisted chiefly in keeping well out of the spotlight, leaving the speech-making to professional leather-lungs. Practically unknown to the public at large, he went home to Crystal Falls to vote in the 1934 election. A local paper sent a reporter to interview him. Although that region had always elected a Republican to Congress, Mr. Hurja told the reporter that the Democratic candidate would be elected by a majority of about 3,460 votes. His prediction was published under the headline "The Crystal Gazer from Crystal Falls." The Democratic majority...
...follows the same story of a man becoming a doctor in order to save the life of the girl he loves. Robert Taylor is the man and Irene Dunne the girl but unfortunately Taylor's acting does not approach he mature work of his leading lady who holds the spotlight. Charles Butterworth and Henry Armetta add their typical bits of humor as newly-wed and valet respectively. It is a generally mediocre piece but entertaining, nevertheless...
Stealing the spotlight in the National Junior Skating Championships held Friday and Saturday nights in the Boston Arena, M. Bernard Fox '38 annexed the singles titles and combined with Miss Joan Tozzer to win the pair crown by the unanimous decision of the judges...
...cake-baking contest which he had sponsored as a 17-year-old salesman of cottonseed oil shortening. Not until Senator Long began nursing Presidential aspirations did he begin to draw his wife occasionally out of the domestic shadows in which she kept herself after he got into the national spotlight. She rarely visited Washington, is almost unknown there. Of her qualifications to serve as one of its rulers, the nation last week knew only that Rose McConnell Long has been a loyal, patient wife, a devoted mother to her two sons and daughter, a quiet, retiring antithesis of her late...