Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worldwide stir that these remarks created was a three-day wonder. Upon looking up Professor Shaw, the impressionable Press found that he was a Professor of Philosophy and 60 years old. Not only that, he was a ninth lineal descendant of John & Priscilla Alden, author of a learned book, The Road to Culture * and repeatedly voted by students the most popular man of the N. Y. U. faculty. The only strange thing found in his history was his walking 15 years ago from Philadelphia to Manhattan, 90 mi. in 23 hr. 40 min. Editors telephoned, telegraphed, cabled and radioed last...
...pleasantly modern, sleekly and gracefully orchestrated. In it sang tall, reedy-voiced Soprano Yvonne Gall and Tenor Mario Chamlee who used to be Archer Ragland Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), born 39 years ago in Los Angeles. Charming but not brilliant, Mârouf might have caused no great stir had not the cover of its program been drawn by one of California's authentic Personages, Tennis Player Helen Wills Moody...
Invasion. Because he has all the economic conservatism of a poor boy who has become a rich man, Governor Sterling was hesitant about grappling the cotton situation Governor Long had tossed to him. For a week he hemmed & hawed. From Louisiana, Governor Long tried to stir him into action by radio appeals to Texas planters. Resentful of this political invasion, Governor Sterling exploded: "Huey Long's not running Texas...
...political cureall. "Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers who supposed the interviews to be authentic. "Coin's Financial School" created such a stir that parades were held in the East to combat its heterodox influence. It was upon this silver issue, as popularized by Harvey, that William Jennings Bryan was nominated and defeated for the Presidency in 1896. Harvey worshipped Bryan, stumped the Midwest for him, antagonized good Democratic audiences by going wildly...
Charles Stewart Mott leads all others by a margin so great as to stir the imagination. At the current market his 649,518 shares would be worth over $23,000,000, a vast sum for one man to have in one enterprise. Next in line come George Fisher Baker Jr. with over $6,000,000 worth of stock and Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. with $5,700,000. In most companies any man who owned over half a million shares of voting stock could be pointed out as a controlling factor, but not so in General Motors. The company...