Word: bolsterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt last week had to tread on some good New Deal toes: 1) To the pain of trust-hating disciples of Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, able young lawyer but no reckless reformer, became Assistant Attorney General, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions to bolster Attorney General Cummings' shaky legal staff. 2) To the suppressed displeasure of Secretary Ickes, Charles West, Presidential contact-man with Congress, was made Undersecretary of the Interior...
Round No. 3, which ended last week, was a victory for ASCAP. Though the Government had insisted on beginning the trial this month, its witnesses wavered so under cross-examination that it was glad to adjourn to bolster up its case. Witness William J. Benning, musical director of Radio Station WTMJ in Milwaukee, asserted that he would be unable to operate without the popular music in ASCAP's catalog. ASCAP controls many an orchestration where it does not control the original tune. Milwaukee's Benning admitted that in such cases his station chose to use ASCAP...
Trouble with English kept his marks low at Ohio Wesleyan for two more years, forced him to bolster his scholarships by cooking for a professor. Then, mastering English, he made money by lecturing on Africa before Ohio lunch clubs and church groups, finished his course with a creditable record. A devout Episcopalian, he has been active in Y. M. C. A. and student welfare work, once served as president of Cosmopolitan Clubs in 17 Ohio colleges including...
...secretary to the new school for government training which will be conducted by the Department of Government starting next year. Professor Lambie is one of the country's most prominent authorities on municipal government and it is expected that he will also give courses on that subject to bolster the rather weak schedule now presented in the field...
McGafferty refuses to admit defeat, tries to bolster up the failing banks singlehanded. His mistress lone comes to fetch him away from the life-&-death struggle, which to her is just another hard day at the office. When he learns that his most trusted associate has shot himself, McGafferty throws up the sponge, goes to meet his own fate...