Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before each issue is read it is a mint of worthwhile information, but what in the world good are several hundred copies in my basement ? I can give them away ... or better, solicit TIME'S help, among its readers, for a better, more profitable method of disposition. Is there some rich, retired seaman, or world-traveler, who would like an index of all these books, willing to pay for them, ship them to some far away place...
...their reaction has been such that practically every politician in the U. S. from Franklin Roosevelt down has put revision of Social Security at the top of his must list. Last week, as the House Ways & Means Committee began hearings on proposed ways & means to make the Act work better, the revisers officially got down to business...
When George Meyers of Lakewood, N. J. one day last year asked a Philadelphia friend for $25 to use in his upholstery-cleaning business, the friend introduced him to Herman Petrillo. Mr. Petrillo had a better idea. He would give George Meyers some big money "-$500 real or $2.500 counterfeit"-if only he would see that one Ferdinand Alfonsi met an accidental death. Cleaner Meyers told his story to the Secret Service, was hired as an informer. Last week he told his findings in a Philadelphia court, where Mr. Petrillo and two women were on trial for running a racket...
This week, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson told Army generals how he proposes to run the War Department's important Planning Branch from now on. In the February issue of Factory Management & Maintenance, he announced a plan to keep Planning Branch officers on indefinite assignment, the better to prepare industry to mobilize for war-time production. Army's traditional policy: to change officers' jobs at least once every four years...
...success of Representative Martin Dies at rabble-rousing with his committee on Un-Americanism. Bob Reynolds admires Opportunist Dies. He has seized upon his issue of "isms" in the U. S. and, while liking Naziism better than Communism, he last week announced a new U. S. mass movement based on opposition to all foreign "isms...