Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretext that they constituted evidence of fraud, Counsel Jackson dragged into the first week's spotlight two sets of facts which had small bearing on the case at hand, large bearing on Mr. Mellon's reputation. One was that in 1931 Mr. Mellon had twice sold stocks short-an entirely legitimate operation except that the Secretary of the Treasury was simultaneously trying to bolster a falling securities market. Private Secretary Johnson explained that, while they were not on deposit with his broker, Mr. Mellon held more than enough shares in his portfolio to cover his short position...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye, whose plans for enjoying the spotlight of the munitions investigation were upset by the President's announcement of still bigger plans to take the profit out of war (TIME, Dec. 24), called, by request, at the White House. He emerged mollified. Said he: "We had a very nice visit. . . . There is evidently not the slightest reason for the theory that the President wanted to end our investigation...
Also-Ran of the Year was California's Upton Sinclair who for a time threatened to steal the spotlight of U. S. politics from Franklin Roosevelt and ended by being a thorn in the great Roosevelt's political side...
...Hull, Morgenthau, Dern, Wallace, Swanson, Perkins, General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt, Rail Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman and Foreign Trade Adviser George N. Peek to take the profit out of war. The announcement knocked the Senatorial inquisitors completely out of the spotlight...
Again the spotlight was accorded to Birge and his highly amusing sates. The supporting cast of David School maker '36, Gordon Robertson '38, and Larry Nichols '35, must have satisfied even the critical impresario and director in chief, Gale Noyes...