Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after the Red Revolution, Comrade Kollontay appeared in the world spotlight as Soviet Commissar of Public Welfare. Upon her was palmed the lie that Russian women had been "nationalized," that she had issued the decree. "Frequently at that time," Comrade Kollontay has said, "I was obliged to leap out of tramway cars when people [Russians] recognized me. I was often forced to listen to the most unbelievable calumnies, the grossest insults...
...With the spotlight of eastern football being cast on the Yale-Dartmouth encounter this afternoon at New Haven, a no less important game as far as the determination of Harvard football policy for the rest of the season is concerned will take place this afternoon, when Harvard meets William and Mary at 2 o'clock...
...replace Mr. Huston as party chairman, at least temporarily, was smallish, solemn, fuss-budgety Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, who cancelled steamship bookings for a European holiday to take over his new political duties. In imitation of the present Democratic setup, in which National Chairman Raskob yields the spotlight to Executive Committee Chairman Jouett Shouse, the Republicans decided to have, in addition to their party chief, an active committee manager to do the real political work. For this new professional post, with $15,000 salary, Robert H. Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department, was tentatively...
Rugby has so many desirable features that its tremendous popularity in England is readily understandable. Given a decent chance the British brand of football has easily come to share the spotlight with our own gridiron variety. If we must have over-emphasis on sport, it might be well to spread it around...
...Catholic has been quiescent. Party leaders have tried to forget Prohibition, to weld the wings of Democracy together again for the 1930 campaign. Shrewd Republican politicians saw the advantages in breaking the rival party once more by the simple method of putting Mr. Raskob into the lobby spotlight, examining him on Prohibition. Even if he has done no lobbying, his appearance before the Committee would serve to remind Dry Democrats throughout the land that they still had a Wet leader, to rekindle the old fires which gutted the party homestead...