Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second stage was comments by Chairman Brundage, who two years ago tried to have Swimmer Jarrett declared a professional; Track Coach Dean Cromwell of Southern California; Nazi newspapers. Said Chairman Brundage. onetime University of Illinois hammer thrower who has stayed in the spotlight as president of the Amateur Athletic Union: "We had no alternative in the circumstances. None regrets the necessity for such drastic action more than I and my associates, who considered all possible grounds for leniency and found none...
...Under his eye work 52 copywriters, some 600 artists and layout men. When, after 11 revisions, the page proofs are completely corrected and back to the printer, the editorial job is done. "Editor" of the Sears book is bespectacled Donald M. Nelson, who likes to keep out of the spotlight as much as does Ward's Folsom...
...partial one in the matter of taxation. Oil companies' taxes amounted to 120% of payrolls, 25% of sales, 676% of dividends. Next came public utilities with taxes equal to 59% of payrolls, 16% of sales, 90% of dividends. Urged NAM: "Let the American people turn the same spotlight of public attention on taxes that has been turned on executive salaries...
Once the nominating hour of the convention had come and gone (see p. 11) Franklin Roosevelt stepped briskly back into the national spotlight. Late Saturday afternoon he and Mrs. Roosevelt entrained at Washington, detrained at Philadelphia, drove into Franklin Field a few blocks from the convention hall. Carpeting the ground of the great stadium below the speakers' stand sat the tattered veterans of the convention soon to be invalided home. Around them, wet by showers but undampened in spirit, sat a new bevy of New Dealers, 100,000 strong. National Chairman Farley had rallied them to adorn the Rooseveltian...
...prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality." The brand of Arkansas hospitality accorded Preacher Williams and Miss Blagden last week swung the spotlight of national attention on the 1936 Arkansas sharecroppers' strike which had been fumbling along unnoticed for four weeks...