Word: poison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First hint that something unpleasant was a-brewing for Browder & Co. came via the Republican National Committee's alert publicity man, Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman...
...repeal or retention of the Neutrality Act's arms embargo might lead the U. S. into World War II, Herbert Hoover now proposed that the U. S. sell freely "defensive" weapons (pursuit & light observation planes, anti-aircraft guns), prohibit forever the sale of "offensive" weapons (bombing planes, bombs, poison gas, submarines...
Helping Chrysler explain its dilemma to the public was James Lee, a son of the late, famed Press Agent Ivy Lee (whom Laborites still remember as "Poison Ivy"). To the press and to dealers facing a shortage of cars at the start of their new season, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller sent a letter: "We are getting practically no production from any of our Detroit plants. . . . You cannot run a business on a sound basis and produce quality automobiles if men . . . take into their own hands the running of the plants." To bulbous, loud Richard Frankensteen...
Skylark has the sleek look of good drawing-room comedy-a luxurious stage set, a pile of monogrammed wisecracks, a cynical bachelor, a sophisticated butler, a poison-breathing bitch. But Playwright Raphaelson does nothing with them: they add up to a formula instead of a good time. His most original idea has been to have his characters spend most of their waking hours on the telephone...
Nothing is quite so good for military technology as war. At the start of World War I, airplanes and poison gas cut no figure as military weapons; tanks were unheard of. All three proceeded to make big names for themselves. Since the Armistice, military theorists have speculated much about weapons that might be developed in the "war of the future." Now that the "war of the future" has started, speculation is hotter than ever. One device closely watched by advance scouts is the rocket-not small signal rockets, but big rockets carrying high explosives...