Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt, master of words, is allergic to certain words with which the press has ticketed his acts. He disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
...Harry Bates, Matthew Woll, Tom Rickert; C. I. O.'s John Lewis, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman - and Madam Secretary Perkins listened respectfully. But Franklin Roosevelt as he addressed them at the White House before the beginning of their labors must have been pretty certain that most of them had their fingers crossed...
...fingerprinted. Seven were discovered to have criminal records. Also, FBI started investigating the character of candidates for marshal jobs. Going further, Frank Murphy last week asked Congress to put all deputies into the Civil Service and require them to take physical examinations. The last was inspired by a certain 400-pounder in Illinois who, too fat to get out of his car to serve warrants, employed as his helper a village character called Silly Willy...
...time for the report of the Faculty Committee of Eight on appointment and tenure draws close, more adverse comment from heads of Departments and Divisions on certain phases of the Teachers' Union report on the same subject has been recorded...
...advisers will presumably accomplish these ends. Some will author scripts aided by members of the English Department, others will study microphone technique, the mysteries of auditory perspective, the effects of studio acoustics, and the reactions to propaganda. For the present, a majority of the programs will be recorded, although certain specific presentations will be heard over WIXAL. This is the group's avowed intent--to combine the theoretical with the practical. By coordinating the newer theories of auditory perception with actual practice, the Workshop may well take the helm in radio's future progress...