Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressing their stockholders last week the chairmen of the two biggest banks of the U. S. both saw fit to make pointed references to one poignant topic. Said Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's Chase National Bank: "Since 1933 the volume of new issues, and especially of stocks, has been a fraction of what it ought to be, and, indeed, of what it was in our last normal financial year, 1923, or 14 years...
...TYRANNY OF WORDS-Stuart Chase -Harcourt, Brace...
...year-old Boston accountant named Stuart Chase took his bride on a strange honeymoon. They poked through slums, pretended to be pitiful specimens of the unemployed, checking up on working conditions in sweatshops. The natural result was not a baby but a book. Stuart Chase, who thus unconventionally introduced his bride to facts he considered fundamental, has spent his life introducing himself and his growing public to facts of deeper & deeper import. Primarily a popularizer of other men's ideas, Author Chase expresses each new enthusiasm in startling journalese. Without the authority of the learned or the wise...
...question, which higher brows than Chase's had dubbed semantics, is: What is the connection between words and reality? Readers who knew their Stuart Chase expected a lively piling up of rough-hewn evidence, the sinister emergence of a nigger, and a whooping pursuit. They were not disappointed. The Tyranny of Words is a typical Stuart Chase book: popular, suggestive, controversial, a racy simplification of a vast problem...
Semantics (defined as "the science of meanings") has been criticized principally because its theoreticians have made such sweeping claims for it as a social cureall, and because books about it are hard to read. Semanticist Chase makes his claims as sweeping as any, but his book is easy reading. "A brief grounding in semantics," he vouches, "besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit . . . Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general...