Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week appeared two magazines of the straight-from-the-shoulder, "let's-get-down-to-cold-facts" type. Each magazine is remotely related to the original Plain Talk* One, issued by H. K. Fly Co., publisher of old Plain Talk, is named Brass Tacks. The other is National Spotlight, published by George T. Delacorte Jr., edited by muckraking Walter W. Liggett, onetime editor of Plain Talk. Apparently on the theory that the reading public is like a sick man who enjoys talk about his ailments, both magazines dwell lingeringly upon the nation's ills...
...first issue National Spotlight announced as its function: "To focus the spotlight of publicity and searching comment upon each successive act of the . . . national revue. . . . There are no sacred cows in our pasture. . . . Spotlight promises to deal honestly?though humorously ?with all the vital topics of our times...
...effectively and originally Spotlight undertook its debunking program is indicated by the following features of the August issue: a cartoon showing Dry politicians stampeding for seats on a Wet bandwagon; a lengthy leading article about the Bonus Army's march to Washington, which occurred in June; an article by Congressman La Guardia telling why he fought the Sales Tax last April; a refutation of the theory that all bankers are all-wise; an estimate of Clarence Darrow ("Portrait of a Great Actor") by Louis Adamic; an account of the witlessness of book publishers; a behind-scenes political review by Robert...
...throne." "I just get things done for him," he insists?answer-ing letters, reading speeches, seeing people. But smart politicians know that Louis Howe has "yes or no" authority from the Governor. They always seek him out, fill him full of their desires and schemes. Well out of the spotlight, he will be on hand at Chicago, reporting every convention move over long distance to Albany...
...Kentucky Legislature last week, declared: "I have not been, am not now, and do not expect to become a candidate for public office. ... I am in love with my chosen work [the presidency of Chicago's First National Bank] and have no desire to desert it for the spotlight of the political arena.'' From the Columbia (Ky.) Traylor-for-President Club, however, fat envelopes urging support of Mr. Traylor's candidacy continued to pour...