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Word: beste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This man Hitler has made himself a world symbol of unspeakable cruelty; he has made virtues of brute force, mass gangsterism, intolerance and hatred. He is not merely anti-Jew and antiChrist; he is anti-everything that we have come to believe is best and worthwhile in civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Third on the program was the smart, husky, popular encyclopedia who calls himself "the best damned no-trump player in the United States," Economist Leon Henderson, who used to work for the Russell Sage Foundation until he was taken to Washington for NRA, after the death of which he buzzed around aimlessly until the Janizariat learned his worth and put him in as TNEC's executive secretary. Through his swift and durable head must pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dull but Important | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...these technical and highly-specialized agencies are to be effective, they must have the best possible trained personnel. Hopkins seemed to think that intelligent newspaper publicity would be an adequate safeguard against poor patronage appointments and the agencies misuse of their delegated power. Yet such front-page publicity would be well-high impossible to get, for unlike the T.V.A. or the S.E.C., whose decisions on matters of policy frequently rate headlines, these proposed bureaus would be solely menial, administrative instruments of policies already enacted by Congress. Since these agencies would probably assume a position similar to that of the Budget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, '39 MODEL | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

...likely that in order to put the best-trained men in the right jobs this proposed bureaucracy could be placed under the Civil Service Commission. One source of a president's power and his party leadership is his control of patronage. Should he be unable to pass out jobs in the present agencies as well as in the proposed bureaus, his only resource, since patronage is essential to his position as national leader both of country and party, would be the creation of temporary councils, commissions, and the like. Such a top-heavy executive structure would only end whatever democratic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, '39 MODEL | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

Naming Yale as "the best dressed girls' college in the country," but claiming that shoulderstrapless evening dresses were not designed for the modern automobile, Miss Dorothy Lord, internationally famous style expert, last night launched a move to glorify the 1939 Radcliffe girl, in a silkless style show...

Author: By Charles L. Bigelow and Spencer Klaw, S | Title: Yale Men Best Gowned, States Dorothy Lord, Famous Stylist | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

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