Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association picked a team for the Davis Cup match with Mexico next month: Wilmer Allison, member of two previous Davis Cup teams; towheaded, 19-year-old Sidney B. Wood Jr.; strong, swart Francis X. Shields, 20. J. B. Adoue Jr. is the non-playing captain. He was picked because he is an experienced player and because he lives in Dallas, Tex., so that it will be easy and cheap for him to get to Mexico. National Champion John Doeg was not picked because he announced that he could not take time off from...
Preparation, Late in March, Fox Film Corp. began to prepare for the ghost-laying by electing Glenn Griswold, long time editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, to vice president in charge of publicity (TIME, March 23). Swart Mr. Griswold is so familiar with the ways of the press that soon many items got them selves into newspapers, to the effect that the financing would be taken care of in due time. President Harley Clarke gave out an interview. "The motion picture business suffered remarkably little from the period of depression," said he. Al though reliable figures on motion picture...
...Harley Clarke succeeded him. Able is Mr. Clarke and varied are his interests (which include ownership of the second largest brickyard in the world), but depressed is the cinema industry and few are the cinema companies which can expect an eager rush of investors to purchase their securities. Keen, swart, mustachioed Mr. Griswold has influential connections and a thorough understanding of how securities are issued, how the press receives them. He, better than Winfield Sheehan, Fox vice president and general manager, and better than any Fox man accustomed to the usual cinema publicity, should be able to launch the forthcoming...
Repealer Lemann. Boldest of all was short, swart Commissioner Lemann (pronounced "lemon"), law professor at Tulane University, onetime president of the New Orleans Bar Association, an independent Wet. He alone refused to sign the full report. Instead he filed a voluminous opinion of his own in which he advocated outright repeal of the 18th Amendment. Said he: "Intoxicating liquor is readily obtainable in every city of consequence in the country. ... If the law is not enforceable in cities [where dwell 40% of U. S. population] it cannot be considered enforceable as a national instrument. ... I cannot find any reasonable ground...
Embargo, like Tariff, is a game at which any number of nations can play. In Washington, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board is calling for "a temporary embargo on wheat imports" (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week Argentina got into the game. Her new Provisional Government, headed by swart, hard-eyed, big-mustachioed General Uriburu, suddenly declared an absolute embargo on "Paraguay...