Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tonight I am going to talk about . . . a political ally of thieves, pickpockets, thugs, dope peddlers and big-shot racketeers. Albert Marinelli, county clerk . . . powerful leader of half the Second Assembly District, dominates the whole. Tonight we turn on the spotlight...
Thanks to Chancellor Hunter's tact, however, five candidates for the $7,500 job of president last month endured the spotlight of the press and examination by the State Board of Higher Education. Last week the board made its choice. 37-year-old Dr. Donald Milton Erb, youngest man ever to head the University...
...acquainted dinner. And he found, as he had suspected, that few knew one another even by sight. From this group was drawn the Food Industries Advisory Board, which collaborated with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Food Code. All this activity put Mr. Chester in the spotlight; and in 1935 Mr. Chester got a telephone call from the N.A.M. president, asking him to serve as an N.A.M. director. Some of his General Foods directors had personal doubts about the publicity value of the position but they nevertheless gave him unanimous permission. Within a few months he found himself in command...
...heard in Buffalo, N. Y., where the Veterans of Foreign Wars, older brother of the American Legion, was assembled for its 38th encampment. For the first time since the World War the aging veterans who had tramped the plains of northern China found themselves in the V. F. W. spotlight. Their listeners were attentive, their pictures in demand for the convention's timely slogan was: PEACE FOR AMERICA...
...players and the U. S. won the Davis Cup with monotonous regularity, the U. S. Singles was as great a championship as any tennist could win. Since then a new generation of players, headed by the gaunt-faced figure of England's Frederick John Perry, has shifted the spotlight inexorably to Wimbledon. For the past four years Forest Hills has been notable to tennists chiefly because Fred Perry appeared there...