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...Court-packing plan and Reorganization bill, sealed his change of heart with a studied rebuff of the President's invitation to go to South America as an "observer." Ardently pro-Willkie in 1940, he rapidly disowned him for supporting the Lend-Lease Bill. Then, so successfully did he plug isolation that in no time he was ranked among the top half-dozen chief U. S. "appeasers." Not even the Hearst chain, Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune or Joseph Medill Patterson's New York News outdid Roy Howard's isolationist tour de force: a screaming "expos...
...musical-comedy administration it could then afford. They danced to Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino, munched hot dogs to the smack of Babe Ruth's home runs at Yankee Stadium, first-nighted the boom-time musicals, which often ran the Mayor's plug in their theatre ads. Those were brave days...
...steps toward his goal, Hochman had three concrete ideas: 1) a $1,500,000-a- year promotion fund (the union offered to contribute, $100,000) to plug dresses and Manhattan's claim to Paris' old title of world's fashion centre; 2) establishment of a school of management, staffed by experts who would teach the manufacturers how to operate without waste; 3) an "efficiency clause" giving the union the right to demand good' management and penalizing employers, who failed to provide...
Charlie Cottar was the first man to chew cut plug in East Africa. It awed the natives. So did his exploits as a hunter. He kicked a water buffalo in the rump to make it face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub home and raised it as a pet. When the leopard grew up he took it with him on hunting trips. It would follow him like a Scottie. One night he woke up in his tent with a leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt...
Gaston came into being year and a half ago when Chateau Martin's president, a onetime hosiery man named Martin Lefcort, decided that it would be a good idea to have a Frenchman plug his California wines. The notion was developed by Chateau Martin's advertising agent, Herman C. Morris, whose outfit whipped together a series of chats by a comic Frenchman, who, after a sip of Chateau Martin '39, uniformly wound up: "I go queek get my citizenship papers." This folderol, tried over a few stations, was so successful that Chateau Martin upped its spot announcement...