Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Rats, vaudeville union, marred the New York premiere of The Governor's Son, Cohan's first musical comedy, in 1901. But after that nothing stopped him. When critics belabored his offerings, when editorial writers fumed at his famed flag-waving act, Cohan began publishing The Spotlight, a weekly throwaway. "Week after week I'd go after them," he recalls. "Week after week they'd come back at me. They slipped me at least a million dollars worth of free newspaper advertising." In 1904 he went into partnership with Sam Harris. They married the Nolan sisters...
...Holmes ideas. Last spring he even edited an issue of the Texaco Star, monthly house organ. Editor Holmes blistered the oil industry, collectively and individually, for its colossal sins and the issue raised a storm in the oil world. Directors who had never seen Texaco in the spotlight were alarmed...
...spot where the ledge sloped least steeply to the gorge's bottom. As some experts had predicted it would do when its injury was mended, it braced its forelegs, slid smoothly down the 35-ft. cliff, loped easily up the other side and out of the national spotlight...
...Conference, to which Moley's visit as the President's "messenger boy" was pompously over publicized. Back in the U. S. Dr. Moley discovered that his conspicuousness had produced a sour public effect. No longer was he welcomed at the President's bedside before breakfast. The spotlight had shifted to General Johnson and NRA, leaving Dr. Moley no more important as an active adviser than a dozen other sub-Cabinet officials. When Secretary Hull got back from London all primed to resign, President Roosevelt pacified him by transferring Assistant Secretary Moley to the Department of Justice...
...ousted from his film company in 1930, William Fox has spent his time scheming for a return to power, collecting modern and antique musical instruments and practicing golf, which, because of his crippled arm. he plays with one hand. For one brief interlude last year he returned to the spotlight when the U. S. Senate Banking & Currency Committee summoned him to Washington. There he promptly ducked into bed. Physicians bickered for days as to whether he was really sick or not. and Mr. Fox never testified. The Committee was puzzled by his income tax return in which he had reported...