Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Alter Ego. Rule No. 1 of the practical handbook of How to Become President says: Acquire a wise, devoted friend who will work and speak for you as you would for yourself. Obviously, the aspirant cannot go about telling people he wants to be President. He must have an alter ego without egotism. This friend and spokesman should have political wisdom, like Mr. Smith's Judge Olvany and Mr. Wilson's Col. House. He should not be chosen carelessly, as Charles Curtis chose loud Matthew Quay Glaser (1928), nor should he have an excess of zeal...
Onetime Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York was the plume in the Wet Athene's helmet last week. He cried: "Senator Fess . . . cannot see what is going on in this country. Tears dim his sight. . . . Does the Senator think we can carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and a half-dozen other States whose people spoke last week on this question . . . [and] hope to cajole repeal-Republicans, millions of good men & women, into an attitude of complacency concerning the thing they regard as vital...
...Paris to see the sights. The attraction is adapted from Homer Croy's novel They Had to See Paris. The few moments of talent in the entire production, aside from those supplied by Mr. Sale, occur when Lois Deppe and his Negro jubilee singers appear. Hello Paris cannot be favorably compared to another musicomedy based on the same idea called Fifty Million Frenchmen...
...possessions of Mrs. Charles Victor Bob, wife of the missing Manhattan stockbroker whose financial activities may bring a loss of $12,000,000 to his investors (TIME, Oct. 27, et seq.), were sold at auction, brought $92,000. Mrs. Bob's share of the proceeds, according to lawyers, cannot be attached by Mr. Bob's creditors. Most interesting item in the sale: a volume containing steel engravings and autographs of every U. S. President. Price...
...written by the chief correspondent of a New York newspaper, Murphy said. "I've only read half the book, and what I've read so far tells me that even though the facts as facts are perfectly true, I feel the author is reaching the wrong conclusions. This I cannot definitely say as yet, but while it is almost impossible to overstate the degree of suffering, even starvation, to be found among many parts of the population; and while no condemnation could be too severe for the selfish villainy of the feudal war lords, we must not lose sight...