Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Barnes's "Menace." Julius Howland Barnes, board chairman of the Chamber (TIME, May 5), led off the attack on the Farm Board by denouncing its market activities as "a menace," declared its damage to private concerns "irreparable." Almost instantly the Chamber's meeting, generally a languid routine affair, was vitalized into an uproar of indignation at the spectre of Government-in-Business. The usual courtesies of public address were put aside as speaker after speaker flayed the Board. For once plain speaking became the rule...
...Notorious Affair (First National). Billie Dove's figure and the clipped accent and expressive eyebrows of Basil Rathbone are the only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall...
...groups advertising a dance which it is going to give for the purposes of raising funds for the scrubwomen and has placed posters and buckets all over Cambridge in giving the affair publicity. One of the buckets, evidently one in which sympathizers were to throw their contributions, was hung on a lampost on Massachusetts Avenue, not far from Walter Hastings Hall. Captain M. J. Brennan, of the Cambridge station ordered two of his subordinates to seize the bucket and the poster in accordance with a city ordinance that prohibits the posting of advertisements on lamposts, telephone poles, and the like...
Alumni protested, it became an affair of national importance...
...press "make a show of it," the police for justice and the press "as a safe-guald against injustice." Lady Morecombe, the widowed mother of the dead man, appeals to the Editor of the particular yellow sheet which is most concerned with making a major scandal of the lamentable affair. "You want to sell your paper," she says, "and because of that, my son, who can't defend himself, is to be blackened his affairs hawked about the streets." The Editor "It's hardly as simple as that. We do want to sell our paper, of course. A Press that...