Word: callings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inch book titled The TIME Audience in Heraldry. In it were 16 shields, of which six are reproduced below, symbolizing the arms that each of these groups of TIME readers might have worn had they lived before heraldry fell into general disuse. Its purpose was to call attention to TIME'S advertising pages by demonstrating that TIME readers are a most desirable audience for messages about many major products and services...
...whipping boys - the 80th Congress and "selfish interests"-but he had freshened up the lines. Now, he declared, there was a "scare-word" campaign. "The people want public housing for low-income families," Truman said. "The selfish interests . . . think it will cut down on their own income so they call it 'collectivism' . . . The people want fair laws for labor. The selfish interests . . . mistakenly fear that their profits will be reduced, so they call that 'statism' . . . We don't care what they call it . . . The people want a fair program for the farmers, including an effective...
...when a curse was designed and intended to call down the wrath of heaven upon any object, animate or inanimate, has happily passed. Today, the words of imprecation, cursing and blasphemy survive in our speech shorn of their real meaning...
...Communist coal strikes. Schuman had started a wholesome drive for deflation, which Queuille continued. The Marshall Plan helped. Last week the franc was stronger, the national debt was slightly down, and industrial production (115% of 1938 when Queuille took office) was up to 130%. M. Queuille's critics call him "The Immobilist" because he so often finds it expedient to do nothing. Last week he attributed his success to the fact that he gave France "a breathing spell"-just when she needed...
...Falangist press did its utmost to emphasize that the naval call represented "the real feeling of U.S. public opinion toward Spain." An editorial in Juventad proclaimed: "American friends, we . . . have more reasons to hate you than to love you . . . But we can forgive all when he who has offended comes to us with a smile on his lips. In this case our pride gives way to simpatia, and we are ready to fraternize with our old enemy who is now our new friend...