Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your subscriber, Mr. Hammerel of Minneapolis, accuses you of partiality toward Smith. But I have for some weeks, as a reader seeking facts, been intending to ask if you were not rather strongly Hooverized...
...last week in Town Topics: "America-or that part of it which has not as yet been romantically enlightened-will be vitally interested to learn of the apparent interest Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Eppes Hawes display in each other. The famous conqueror of the Atlantic loses his vaunted indifference toward the fair sex when in the presence of the effervescent Eppes. Even this change of attitude is front page stuff, you know...
...memorial protesting against the proposed exclusion of the 39 articles of religion, heritage of the English Church. The 39 articles, said the protestants, give to the Church an identity apart from the Roman Catholic Church. Should the articles be excluded, they argue, a not-to-be-desired tendency toward Romanism will be followed. Neither the "high" nor the "low" churchmen have taken either side. It was probable that the matter might be referred to a joint commission of bishops & deputies, which would report in 1931, lest an embarrassing controversy arise at the convention. Against the inclusion of the articles...
...actors. But it was not a closed corporate entity, such as is currently found most profitable. Then Keith-Albee merged with the Orpheum circuit of vaudeville-cinema houses. That made KAO, which soon had tight alliance with Pathe Exchange (cinema producers) very potent. The eccentric amusement curve was closing toward an ellipse. Joseph P. Kennedy (TIME, May 28) closed it by becoming K-A-O's chairman. He was already chairman of Film Booking Offices, cinema distributors and theatre managers. This was an alliance, not a merger. It was weakly tied financially. It was weaker than the Paramount-Famous...
Bulls, of whom there were many, and bears, of whom there were few, looked last week toward Philadelphia. Traders felt, and with reason, that the deliberations of 5,400 U. S. bankers, gathered for the meeting of the American Bankers' Association, held a more or less potent threat to the stockmarket. Many a banker, speaking for himself or his bank, had warned against frenzied speculation. The market had kept its strength, had soared through a record month. But traders feared the effect of a solemn and public pronouncement from the Philadelphia convention. Resolute bulls faced the 5,400 bankers with...