Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...material, have become the real news of the day. Conventionality is almost prescribed since every eccentricity, everything that is individual about a man, is unearthed and broadcast by the press, Lindbergh has long been a case in point, now, having moved into a secluded place to avoid the public spotlight, he is again subject to the most merciless publicity, Every "angle" is played up; every drop of human interest must be squeezed out of the story into the newspapers. And in cynical self-justification one of the Boston papers bewailed the fact that so much money had to be spent...
...Harry Sinclair, who will be Consolidated's chairman, was the power back of the merger, the man who stepped into the spotlight last week was Herbert Richard Gallagher, who will be president. Since 1910 Mr. Gallagher has been selling oil on the Pacific Coast for Shell Union Oil Corp. His own talent was selling, and for that, particular reason Consolidated chose him. Nowadays it is no feat to produce oil, re fine it and transport it. Of Consolidated's three component parts, two have made little effort to retail oil or gasoline. Prairie Oil & Gas owns almost...
...both citizens and government. Those were the great days of William Hale Thompson, Chicago's illustrious mayor. Swept into office on the highly pertinent policy of "America First," he offered a three-ring circus rather than a government. Mr. Capone and his boys had their notoriety, but the spotlight was the mayor's whenever he wanted it. His character interpreted the momentary character of the city, and if the finances went to pieces in the meantime, he was still a sufficient symbol. When he finally lost, not to a stronger candidate so much as to a bigger machine, somebody...
...amounts are repayable over a period of ten years at 4%. ... In saving the collapse of Germany, the American people have done something greater than the dollars and cents gained. . . . They have contributed to maintain courage and hope in the German nation." ¶:As usual last week the Press spotlight focused glaringly upon the White House Christmas. Sons Herbert Jr. and Allan arrived from California with Mrs. Hoover Jr. and Grandchildren Peggy Ann and Herbert ("Peter") III. But this year Hard Times, more as an example than as a result of necessity, made a difference even at the White House...
...Army because of the latter's unfair eligibility stand, and Columbia had given loud publicity to its efforts to lesson the pressure on football by starting an athletic endowment fund. Sports writers had stopped this year to play up men as All-American prospects, two defeats had taken the spotlight off that gridiron monster, Notre Dame, and it seemed that things were actually progressing toward sanity Only a continual list of charity games and unemployment round-robins had served to distort the picture...