Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...crash put Franklin Roosevelt's new CAB on a hotter spot than ever. Thirteen of the airlines' perfect 17 months were flown under the supervision of the old Civil Aeronautics Authority. By Presidential order, CAA was taken from its independent status last May, made a bureau under the Department of Commerce. Part of the order abolished the independent Air Safety Board. Last week, while many an airman talked behind his hand of disorder and dissension in the new bureau. Senator Pat McCarran once again trumpeted the same charge from a Nevada mountaintop. "Chaos and confusion" in CAB, cried...
...score. Swingtime "Go 'Way Blues" and sweetly-sentimental "I Heard You Were Lovely" attest to his composing versatility. Other songs we are likely to hear more of are "You're a Character," "America Marches On," and "Never a Dull Moment." Ella Logan gives a personality-plus presentation of the hotter numbers, while Christina Lind and Harry Stafford romance through the softer strains. As for the indispensable sex-angle, Audrey Christie leads al the other fifty-odd girls in the cast in laying it on with a capital S. Her dormitory-room strip-tease coached by Maxie and Sid gives...
...voters mulled over many a Governor (33) this week, but when all the mulling was over, the score (barring late upsets) remained exactly as before: 19 Democrats, 14 Republicans. Some of the hotter contests: ^-Illinoisans, chronically pink-eyed from blinking at politicians, found their new Governor, Republican Dwight Herbert Green, a sight for sore eyes. The upstanding, good-looking, grey-haired former...
DEATH BREATHES CLOSE BEHIND many a newsman today... but nowhere closer and hotter than along "newspaper row" in Shanghai...
...address was well written, soundly argued, effectively organized. Yet partly because of his own hoarse weariness, the speech was unsatisfactory to the Republican crowd present, who applauded sparingly, halfheartedly. Dissatisfied, they called him back. He spoke a kind word for Bruce Barton. Still dissatisfied, they roared for more, more, hotter oratory. A man in the front row jumped up, tore a speech text in half, shouted: "There, that's over! Now tell us!" Puzzled, pleased, the shaggy man returned, and (on the theme: "If we do not prevail this fall, this way of life will pass") lit out with...