Word: getters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's long-legged Yankee President James Bryant Conant is rapidly proving himself as able a money-getter as his canny predecessor, Abbott Lawrence Lowell. While pocketing with one hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec. 23), he dashed off with the other an appeal for Harvard's Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The Fund will be used partly for fat, new scholarships, partly to establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were...
...votes to his Democratic opponent's 11,000. However, the Michigan district in question has been consistently Republican for the last 36 years. Though a snowstorm on the morning of election day doubtless reduced the size of last week's vote, Townsendism as a vote-getter made no impressive record considering that, of Republican Main's predecessors, one in 1934 polled 41,000 votes, another in 1932 polled 49,000 votes. Moreover, the Main campaign was endorsed by Michigan's Governor Fitzgerald and Senator Vandenberg, both of whom are opposed to Townsendism. Winner Main himself estimated...
...wonder to the G. 0. P. directorate as well, for he was the only Republican elected to an office higher than Representative in both the New Deal landslides of 1932 and 1934. On the record, Governor Landon might claim to be currently the Party's ablest vote-getter. Governor Landon's chief distinction, that of being a Great Economizer, has already been developed into a legend of frugality by his friends. His miserly appearance, his proclivity for backing the athletic teams of his Alma Mater, the State University, with nickel bets, have helped win him the title...
Vernon Pope is in charge of the rotogravure, which, instead of being the usual Sunday dump for left-over news pictures, is used as a sustained circulation getter. A prime factor in the Cowles formula is to develop long picture series which will run for a dozen weeks or more...
...patronage and favors. Mayor Kelly's unexampled victory was probably enhanced by the disintegration of Chicago's Republican machine which has not recovered from the black eye given it by its scandalous crookery a few years ago. But Mayor Kelly also showed himself a magnificent vote-getter in an election marked by no noteworthy issue. And a political organization able to deliver 800,000 Democratic votes is not one that a President who wants to be re-elected in 1936 can afford to ignore...