Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month. His will was probated last week. Under its terms Ramsay MacDonald will receive for the rest of his life the income from $200,000, about $7,500 a year. To Ramsay MacDonald this windfall is happily not so all-important financially as loyal, generous Sir Alexander had thought it would be. By an act of Parliament, passed after the will was made, Mr. MacDonald is entitled to a pension of $10,000 a year as a onetime Prime Minister. Moreover, because fortnight ago he decided to stay in the House of Commons rather than accept an earldom (TIME...
...chief attractions was Dancer Toto Leverne, who appeared five times a day with no covering other than a stuffed swan (TIME, July 13). When it was decided to carry the fair into its second season, Manager Lincoln Griffith Dickey thought that perhaps hundreds of almost naked girls might be a better prop than one entirely bare one. The logical man to call in was Billy Rose. His contract was reported to be $100,000 for 101 days...
Lawyer Frank Billings Kellogg of St. Paul, Minn. thought he had erected his everlasting monument when, as U. S. Secretary of State (1925-1929), he fathered the anti-war pact which bore his name with that of France's late great Aristide Briand, and which was duly signed in Paris by 15 leading nations, including Japan, Italy and Germany. Ever since Mr. Kellogg's successor Henry Lewis Stimson made his abortive attempt to invoke the Pact against Japan in 1931, Mr. Kellogg's monument has seemed increasingly hollow. Last week, not as a Government official...
From 1902 until his death Henderson wrote on music for the Sun. He always insisted that he was simply "a reporter with a specialty-music." Singers thought enough of his specialty to ask him about their placement, production, control...
...time the unhappy legislators showed a disinclination to accept any such responsibility, and the measure was defeated in committee in the Democratic Senate. The chains thought they had won. Suddenly Governor Earle put the so-called Store Tax Bill on his list of "must" legislation, turned on the kind of bone-crushing political pressure for which Pennsylvania, Democratic or Republican, is justly famed. The Governor's philosophy: "Let's have many small capitalists instead of a few large ones...