Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little sport plane whizzing in from a pleasure hop makes visitors stand still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark it for invisible arrivals from the sky, and the beacon revolving like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night last week, waiting in the stage-like dark for Wiley Post to come...
...rising power in the Radical-Socialist Party, remembered his prize pupil and got him a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of Herriot's junket to Soviet Russia, joined the Herriot Cabinet in 1924 as Minister of Colonies. Never catching the national spotlight, his influence in the party and in France grew & grew. He served in the 1926 Herriot Cabinet, fought ultra-Nationalist Raymond Poincare persistently, was elected president of the Radical-Socialist Party in 1927, became leader of a party faction separate from his old teacher last winter...
...elections McKee was even more thoroughly defiled by the civic leaders because he was promptly snubbed by Tammany, which nominated O'Brien instead. But now with the support of Flynn of the Bronx and some seceding Tammany Braves it looks as if he may get another chance at the spotlight...
...Roosevelt lately told interviewers.* "The highest ideal I could hold up before our boy was to grow to be like his father, straight and honorable, just and kind, an upstanding American." She shared her son's political successes only from a distance, never obtruding herself into his spotlight. The Hyde Park estate is legally hers until her death but she has made it a home and a refuge for her boy. She still worries about his health, warns him to wrap up when going out in the cold, busies herself about his small comforts. When he returned to Manhattan...
...Paul's, is the equally Reverend William Foxley Norris, onetime Dean of York, now Dean of Westminster. Twice in the past month Dean Norris, whose hobby is art and who has a nice talent in painting, emerged from the shadow of the Empire's shrine into the spotlight of world news. When a petition was started to give the late great John Galsworthy an Abbey burial Dean Norris was "forced regretfully to decline." Unofficial reason given was lack of space. Last week came to light a speech by Dr. Norris before the Architectural Association in which the artist...