Word: z
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preaching team arc such pious notables as Mrs. Harper Sibley, wife of the president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Francis Bowes Sayre. Assistant Secretary of State, and Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Dr. T. Z. Koo. a leader of Christian youth activities in China. The eleven Bishops of the Team included Episcopal Archbishop Cecil C. Quainton of Victoria, B. C., Methodist Bishop Ralph Spalding Cushman of the Denver area. Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington. A Team member who was to preach in Pittsburgh last week was Manhattan's Presbyterian Dr. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee...
Disclaiming any backers, Syria-born Mr. Bourjaily told the trade Mid-Week Pictorial would henceforth be administered by a corporation composed of himself, his wife and lawyer. Managing Editor would be Dr. Franz Hollering, onetime editor of the Berlin B-Z am Mittag. Editorial headquarters were to be in a remodeled five-story Manhattan brownstone. Predicted Publisher Bourjaily: "Our approach will be that of a newspicture magazine supplementing the daily and Sunday paper and trying to interpret news rather than report...
...invited him to a Progressive conference in Chicago: "In this campaign we must choose between President Roosevelt or Governor Landon. . . . For the liberals to split their votes is merely to play into the hands of the Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired him to ''keep up the good fight...
This same transitional poet ticked off the z's as follows...
...this fifth installment Author Romains sticks mainly to industrial and political developments; some of the earlier characters do not even appear. Tycoon Bertrand's automobile factory booms, and Bertrand's fortunes are furthered by joining forces with Champcenais and the sinister armament-maker, Zülpicher. Briand is shown briefly at the Republic's helm, while Gurau, the ambitious politician, bides his time until he can get the Cabinet post he wants. The Abbé Mionnet, sent to tighten up discipline in a provincial diocese, nearly gets in trouble himself when rumors of his liaison begin...