Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While floor brokers amused themselves with a new game (see p. 68) and influential members anxiously discussed the coming elections for president, there was serious business afoot on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Summoned to attend a secret meeting of the public relations committee was Edward L. Bernays, No. 1 U. S. publicist. He had obviously been called in to discuss the vexed question of "reselling" the Stock Exchange to the public. Perhaps, newshawks reasoned, he had been hired to take over that job. When later that day the committee refused to say what had happened...
Pressed Steel Manufacturer John Woodman Higgins of Worcester, Mass, has one thing in common with Shakespeare's Claudio: each would walk ten miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy...
...Press suggested that the husky, thick-set host needed money to finish a hydro-electric project, that a mysterious Southwest power deal was afoot, that the utility men were trying to draft Mr. Couch for active command of the Edison Electric Institute during dark political months ahead. It was even hinted that the whole thing smacked of an unholy alliance of Power, Politics, Education and the Courts...
...Afoot among earnest businessmen last week was a movement to popularize the use of the more balanced phrase, "profit & loss system." A complicating factor: instead of the "profit system" members of the Administration often say the "profit motive...
...President Roosevelt was shocked to learn that in twelve states there were movements afoot to disenfranchise unemployed as paupers. He indignantly remarked that no court in the land would countenance such procedure...