Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British answer to all such proposals was long ago enshrined in that ringing Imperial formula: "The King's subjects are not for sale...
Diplomatically speaking the formula was a masterpiece. But would Germany sign? The decision was not really up to Chancellor von Papen at Lausanne, but to his "Cabinet of Monocles" at Berlin, dominated by intriguing Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense. Last week the Government spokesman at Berlin made the Chancellor look like a figurehead, and a silly one at that, by flatly disclaiming von Papen's amazing proposal at Lausanne for a Franco-German military alliance (TIME, July 4). "The Chancellor," snapped the spokesman, "was only voicing a personal dream...
Under orders from Berlin, Chancellor von Papen presently called on Scot MacDonald in Lausanne. He demanded that the MacDonald-Herriot formula, if signed, should become binding immediately upon its ratification by a majority of the signatory powers. In other words France must not be permitted to keep everything in suspense until after the U. S. elections by delaying her ratification. Secondly the Chancellor declared that the German bond issue could not be for more than two billion marks, half what the Allies demanded and 1/57 of what Germany agreed to under the Young Plan. Finally von Papen demanded the writing...
...Frederick Herendeen; Charles H. Abramson and Jess Smith, producers). In a lonely house in Florida's Everglades a demented professor (William Ingersoll) grows a gigantic spider. He is assisted by a Japanese butler (Harold deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm...
...many clothes. Also he learned that a sermon on ethics will gain the ears of millions if the text is the parable of the stenographer who lusted for her employer. From these two truisms, aided by a complete lack of good taste, Bernarr Macfadden evolved a magazine publishing formula which made him rich. As years rolled by and millions rolled in, it occurred to him to try applying his formula to a newspaper, in the city where the gumchewing population is largest. In Manhattan in September 1924 appeared his tabloid Evening Graphic, a daily magazine of sexationalism which announced itself...