Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enthusiasm for his favorite relief project took President Roosevelt to the Department of Commerce building one morning last week to inspect an exhibit of subsistence homesteads and other forms of local selfhelp. Set up in the auditorium were models of homesteads, samples of co-operative-made furniture, rugs, tools, quilts, etc. Before he left the White House the President had not intended to make a speech to a heterogeneous audience which included three Cabinet members, Bernard Baruch, the Federal Administrator of Relief, some Congressmen. Mrs. Roosevelt and many a humble relief worker. But by the time he left the auditorium...
Plan-Maker. The President's "pet children" are also problem children, and Milburn L. Wilson, the man whose exhibit touched off the President's enthusiasm, is their tutor. Tutor Wilson was an Iowa farm boy, who got a college education and went back to farming. Later he became head of the division of Farm Management for the Department of Agriculture. As a professor at Montana State College, he plunged into the problem of dry-farming, of raising more wheat per acre than had been grown before. Soon overproduction reversed his problem. He disowns authorship of the Domestic Allotment...
...used his great instrument to strengthen the choruses. More often it was only to blend with the orchestra or round out massive undertones worthy of his subject. Pietro Yon proved years ago that he is a musician before he is an organist. He had not written an oratorio to exhibit his own virtuosity, to show how his feet could travel the pedals, his fingers control the maze of stops...
Target Tugwell. Personal target for most of the publishers' hard words and harder feelings was Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell whom President Roosevelt last week stepped up to be Undersecretary of Agriculture as a public exhibit of faith in him (see p. 14). "There seems to be a clearly defined belief on the part of many administration officials," warned Lincoln B. Palmer, general manager of A. N. P. A., "that advertising is a social and economic waste, that it should be included as a marketing cost; that even harmless trade claims should be prohibited; and that all advertisements should...
...have audited the books and accounts of John Doe, Inc. and we certify that the accompanying Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statement are correct and, in our opinion, exhibit a fair view of the corporation's affairs...