Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Follette is too isolationist (and for that reason may not have the badly needed support of the White House in his race for re-election this fall). Among the so-called New Deal "militants" in the Senate (Minton, Lee, Pepper, Wagner) not one has the force & fury to attract Franklin Roosevelt. But there is another reason for this insulation from Congress: Mr. Roosevelt after seven years of New Deal politicking is genuinely, desperately bored with professional politicians as a class...
Since last May the U. S. Army has used the air waves, particularly in its Second Corps Area (New York, New Jersey, Delaware), to attract recruits to its growing ranks. Beginning with spot announcements that pointed out the advantages of joining early, the Army blossomed out six weeks ago with a regular program on Manhattan's WMCA. This week the Army's first network show will be offered by CBS to all its stations...
...royal couple. With the sponge-fishing industry severely curtailed by disease, the islands are almost completely dependent on the tourist trade, which has slimmed down greatly since outbreak of war disrupted ship schedules to Nassau. But shopkeepers confidently expected the headline appeal of their new rulers to attract lucrative swarms of romantic-minded sightseers...
...attract customers to their 30-day meet, they will do away with scoring, the timehonored, time-wasting method of starting,* and substitute the recently invented McNamara starting gate in which drivers, separated by dangling ropes, are given 15 seconds to jockey for position and cross the line. The promoters will also do away with the equally hallowed custom of heat racing (two out of three heats to decide the winner instead of one race). They will lay out a half-mile track, popular with railbirds because the horses pass the grandstand twice, and install an electric tote board and apparatus...
...instruction, while necessarily familiarizing the student with many specialized governmental problems, is designed primarily to provide a grasp of public administration in its broader phases. A primary objective of the School is to attract students of real intellectual distinction and to bring them together in an atmosphere of research and inquiry conducive to a better understanding of the long-range significance of public problems...