Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Zoo in Washington. Then the plane buzzed on to New York, where eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick-eared creatures with 'little bumps where the horns are beginning to bud, Rancher Belden collected $100. Clumping about Manhattan in his cowboy boots, ten-gallon hat, the short, jovial "Antelope King" remarked: "None of the fawns was airsick. Whenever they seemed to mind the heat, we just flew...
Trick of the Yean Last year's outstanding audience-catcher was the Bowes amateur hour, acquired by Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency from a relatively small station to follow in the footsteps of Comedian Eddie Cantor as nation-wide salesman for Chase & Sanborn's coffee. This season's most unusual big program may be Chase & Sanborn's "Good Will Court" in which downhearted folk step up to a microphone, tell their personal difficulties to municipal judges who pass out good advice. Appeal of this program, which shrewd J. Walter Thompson begins...
...Private Aid?" In perfect agony at Paris all week was new Premier Blum, as French politics split wide open into factions, respectively, for the Spanish Government and for the Spanish Revolution...
...making Mr. Walker chairman of Transamerica and Mr. Walker predicted a great future for branch banking, In 1931 Mr. Walker ruthlessly swept the remaining Gianninis from Transamerica's board of directors, proposed to sell the whole Giannini chain of banks because "there is no apparent likelihood that nation-wide branch banking will be authorized by law in the near-future...
...branch banking, since each big bank confines its expansion to its own State. Transamerica functions not as a bank but as a holding company. Thus Transamerica keeps within the letter of the law of the 1935 Banking Act but cannot similarly invade most Eastern States where laws forbid State-wide branch banking. To unit (one-bank) bankers who violently oppose him as a financial monopolist, Banker Giannini says: "Under a unified banking system it will be possible to have the equivalent of an up-to-date central clearing house for the nation . . . and the status of the nation...