Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewd Franklin Roosevelt never let his Bonus marchers get the Washington spotlight. Quick as querulous, down-at-heel veterans began shuffling into Washington, he began shipping them off to special relief camps in the South. In eleven such camps last week?seven in Florida, four in South Carolina?some 2,500 derelicts were being housed, fed, paid $30 to $45 per month...
...teeth, again while a barber clipped his almost bald head, and even in the act of putting on his shoes, not to mention countless poses of the Premier buzzing about Tokyo in full Admiral's regalia. Such antics have their use. While Premier Okada has monopolized the spotlight, Finance Minister Takahashi has been able to wage quietly and not altogether without success a grim battle for budgetary economy against War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi. Though the Japanese budget last week was fantastically unbalanced by $88,000,000, the Government nonetheless had Japanese essentials well enough in hand...
...documents contain 146 rules which place the practice of medicine in the U. S. under a closed professional dome which doctors want their patients to believe is the most beautiful, unselfish, beneficent thing on earth.† Any physician who by accident or design happens to get into the lay spotlight runs a serious risk of being tossed out of Organized Medicine. Chief catapult is Chapter III, Article I, Section 4, of the Principles of Medical Ethics, which pertains to "advertising" and reads in part: ". . . It is equally unprofessional to procure patients ... by furnishing or inspiring newspaper or magazine comments concerning...
...Finland, away from the world's musical spotlight, there lives a bald, rotund old man who with his music has won more respect than almost any other living composer. Finns idolize their Jean Sibelius, stamp and cheer when they hear his music expertly played. Last year they cheered Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"). And because Sibelius praised him lavishly too, young Janssen was given a chance this winter to conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...spot with a third measure to carry out his wishes (TIME, Jan. 28). But unemployment insurance and old age pensions were too politically popular a matter for the Marylander to keep for himself. Chairman Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee shoved his way into the spotlight with a bill so similar that the Government Printing Office ran off copies from the plates made for the Lewis one. Then Chairman Doughton wangled a lower number for his bill which would place it ahead of the Lewis measure upon the House calendar. Mr. Lewis protested against this attempt...