Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemies, who abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view. As boss of RFC, the Department of Commerce, a dozen other related and unrelated New Deal agencies, he saved many a bank, railroad and factory from the financial junk heap, made money for the Government...
...Buffalo Advertising Club last week heard a Manhattan psychiatrist on the subject of a couple of soap operas, and was he burned up! Clinical studies of such programs are rare, though clinical studies of their listeners abound. Dr. Louis Berg took only a casual interest in soap operas until some of his women patients suffered relapses after listening to them...
...late, newspapers have been noticeably long on mud-slinging in their news and Washington columns, and short on constructive comment from the editorial page. They abound with insidious feature material to imply that because Mayris Chaney has danced in night clubs she is unfit for civilian defense, that because Melvyn Douglas is a Hollywood box-office star we must discount his impressive record as administrator and youth-sponsor, that because Jane Seaver is an acquaintance of Eleanor Roosevelt she is incapable of work in national morale...
...what most other U. S. Representatives would like to be: a Congressman who can afford to play statesman. Towheaded, brainy, Democratic Mr. Walter is a director of the Easton National Bank, a successful lawyer who gets along equally well with Bethlehem Steel Corp. and with Bethlehem workers, who abound in his bailiwick. By conviction ("I believe in it") and vote (for TVA, Wagner Act, etc.) he is a confirmed New Dealer...
...Fatherland is Adolf Hitler's crony. Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Consul General at San Francisco. Waterfront talk was that, now that the British were on the alert, he would try shipping them in small lots on different ships, perhaps even on the Japanese "fishing boats" with which California waters abound...