Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter. Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...
...German educational caste system. After the fourth grade of elementary school, only 10% of German children have the money or social position to get into secondary schools (roughly equivalent to U.S. prep schools); the other 90% get four years' vocational training, then become Germany's butchers, bakers & candlestick makers. A majority of German children have to choose their vocations before they are 14-and stick to their choice. The mission urged the U.S. to make all German secondary schools tuition-free, root out the old caste distinctions. Said the report: "This system has cultivated attitudes of superiority...
...tied up in a pickle carton. There were other millions who got mad, concluded 1) that they were living in an immoral age; 2) that somebody was to blame; and 3) that they were rapidly going broke. But if they got ugly with the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker they ended up eating eggplant. To get the goods you had to smile, smile, smile...
...course you'd better watch out because they're not all like that, and that 5 foot, 4 inch brunette with the business experience may be a woman Marine, or a WAC. For the WAVE, although not Butcher, Baker, or Candlestick maker, could, right here in New England, be a cartographer, archaeologist, serologist, or a statistical epidemiologist. That might be dangerous...
...problem of preventing private interests from secretly polluting the wells of public information was solved long ago, in the case of the press, by simply requiring every publication to publish a list of its owners once a year but allowing anybody, be he butcher, baker or candlestick maker, to own a paper. There is one important difference between the press and radio: any number of different papers can be published, but the number of radio stations is limited by the wave lengths available-a fact which may entitle the Government to have a say in who owns those that...