Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warners, envious with the rest of Hollywood of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous Hedy Lamarr, started circulating glamorous photographs of Ann Sheridan, her red hair dyed a shade lighter than life, her teeth in permanent caps, her nubile curves seductively displayed. Although her most ambitious job of work since then has been an unimpressive performance in an unimpressive picture called Indianapolis Speedway, Warners' smart young West Coast publicity chief, Bob Taplinger, has made her one of movieland's brightest extracurricular celebrities...
...although as usual it featured some new names. M. G. M.'s Louis Burt Mayer spoke up for MRA-as Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays had done at a luncheon given by Mr. Mayer for the Buchmanites. Henry Ford sent a message, publicly endorsing Dr. Buchman and his work by name. Herbert Hoover furnished some words about the world's troubles, which headline writers construed as praise for MRA; thereupon Mr. Hoover let it be known that he neither endorsed MRA nor denied endorsing it. Read again was the message President Roosevelt sent a recent MRA meeting...
...five years ago, Buchmanites claimed they had "settled" the longshoremen's strike, "the first strike in history in which Christ was called upon to act as arbiter." That strike went on long after Buchmanites had been guided to urge the longshoremen to forget their troubles, go back to work...
...panic of 1893 financial ruin struck the Willkies and a few years later Elwood's natural gas, prodigally wasted, played out. By the time "Wen" Willkie and his three brothers were in long pants they found plenty of work in summer moving abandoned Elwood houses into the country to be used as outbuildings for farmers. Their home was a sort of perpetual debating society. They kept more than 6,000 books around the house and old Herman Willkie, back at his law practice harder than ever, woke his children in the mornings by shouting quotations from the classics...
...Dave Lilienthal, who had been fighting the ogre of private ownership as a member of the Wisconsin utility commission, took over TVA. Member of a three-man board, he dominated it from the start, became chairman two years ago when old Arthur Ernest Morgan, onetime president of Antioch (work-learn) College, was fired after a spectacular battle against Lilienthal policies. From the start utilitymen never doubted that Dave Lilienthal intended to run every private utility out of the Tennessee Valley...