Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Villain No. 1 was Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of the new National Industrial Relations Board. Delegate I. M. Ornburn of the Cigar Makers International Union charged that when he was chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., as well as head of the cigaret code authority. Mr. Williams had used his NRA prestige to delay the code's enactment, to lower the code wage level and to frame the code so that it "deprived the President of the United States of the mandatory power contained in other codes." On this score a resolution was presented asking the President to "reconsider...
...cause an attempt to be made on his life. With only eight hours remaining before the time set for the execution of Gray, Chan sets a clever trap and the foxy villian falls right into it. It you decide in the beginning who looks least like the dastardly villain you will have solved the case and will not have to resolved the case and will not have to remain any longer...
...lending to business. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sent a platoon of professors into the Chicago Federal Reserve district to find out who was holding up credit expansion. But not until last week did it occur to anyone in Washington to look for the Administration's pet banking villain right inside the Treasury. At a Washington conference of national bank examiners President Francis Marion Law of the American Bankers Association politely suggested that perhaps the periodic examinations were so strict that bankers feared to do anything except sit on the vault...
...Elizabeth Barrett. Miss Shearer's emotional depths build up the play considerably and march carries out his part to perfection, although it seems as though the real Browning was not as blustering as the play would have him. Charles Laughton, as Elizabeth's domineering papa, and, incidentally, the villain of this interesting-because-true plot, succeeds in making one hate him thoroughly because of his superb handling of a part calling for alternate restraint and outbursts of temper...
Partly because he was told in his youth that General John Hunt Morgan, most famed of Confederate cavalry raiders, was a villain, Biographer Swiggett was convinced he was a hero. After long study of the documents in the case, he is not so sure. This biography of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War will not end the controversy but it does throw some light on another murky corner of U. S. history...