Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maladjusted people. He believed that absolute sexual normality is rarer than abnormality, crusaded for candor, removal of restrictive sex laws and customs. Said he: "If a man wants to understand a woman, he must discover the woman in himself, and if a woman would understand a man, she must dig in her own consciousness to discover her own masculine traits." Dr. Hirschfeld's Institute, founded in 1919, was later taken over and renamed for him by the Prussian Government. Over its door he put the motto of Hitler's hero, Frederick the Great, "I intend in my State...
...Gardner of North Carolina, a conservative liberal who now has a rich corporate law practice, was persuaded by the President last week to take the job. With Max Gardner's name at the head lending an air of conservatism, a staff of sharp young legal assistants will dig into A. T. & T. looking for dirt...
...final dig at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the President warmly welcomed a group of his oldtime bad boys, the bankers. At its annual convention last autumn the American Bankers Association kept its rebellious members under iron control, with the result that an official peace treaty was signed with the President. Last week, although the ABA officials served notice that they intended to fight the Banking Bill, endorsed in his fireside broadcast only last fortnight, President Roosevelt cheerfully told them that his mind was still open...
Nevertheless, if there was dirt to dig from Hydro's past, "Mitch" Hepburn could find it. And he did, chiefly in connection with long-term contracts which Hydro made with four big private power companies in the neighboring Province of Quebec. Apparently convinced that the amazing growth in power sales promoted by Hydro's low rates in the booming 1920-5 would continue indefinitely, Hydro's former Conservative management signed up for huge blocks of power on a rising scale of delivery for years to come. After Depression struck Ontario, Hydro, with its own plant capacity...
...Groton, Mr. Gay was clerking in a drygoods house. Later he went into insurance, then coal, finally banking. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1911. Today Mr. Whitney likes to ride to the Essex Fox Hounds in swank Far Hills, N. J. Mr. Gay prefers to dig in his garden...