Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a few weeks ago it was common experience to read in American papers verbatim excerpts from specific government-controlled newspapers in Europe. These excerpts were printed without comment...
After 72 days of competition our company has retained 77.9% of its business, and already has reconnected 118 customers who left us to go to the government power system. The most common explanation of this inconsistency of people voting for a power system and then not using it is: Politicians Get Votes -Businessmen Get Business...
When 2,000 sportsmen, scientists and sentimentalists, organized by Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, met in Washington three years ago for the first North American Wildlife Conference, it seemed pure fantasy to hope that they would agree on a common program. For years animal-lovers and hunters had fought each other far more vigorously than they fought for conservation of the nation's wildlife resources. Meanwhile lakes dried up, marshes were drained, forests cut over, rivers polluted, birds, beasts and fish killed off by the million...
Today, W. M. Welch Manufacturing Co. is a $500,000 Chicago concern. Although diplomas have become so common that most of their owners scorn to display them, practically no graduate of the nation's 30,000 high schools and 1,000 colleges would dream of leaving school without one, and most elementary school graduates demand them, too. Mr. Welch's company, which supplies twice as many as any other firm, sells some 500,000 a year in high schools and colleges and 100,000 in elementary schools. Last week it started production of the 1939 models...
...supposed disadvantages of the plan, several reports have emphasized that the Houses, with one or two minor exceptions, are physically capable to accommodate the proposed number of associate members. Furthermore, Student Council investigation has proven that the out-of-house men, contrary to what was once common belief, favor the plan. Now, with their original straw scarecrows toppled, the Masters have been forced to fall back upon a nebulous euphemism--"house solidarity"--to substantiate their opposition to the associate plan. Gradually, though, even the misty outlines of this argument are crumbling as the result of official and unofficial investigation. Before...