Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest tax proposal since he took this job last December. From his predecessor, John L. Sullivan, he had learned never to fight back at a committee. As a tax lawyer in Wall street and as a lecturer on taxation at Yale and Harvard he had learned how to explain and convince. (Says Chairman Doughton of Ways & Means of Paul: "He's about like all them other fellers they send up here, only he don't make...
...Argentine Chamber of Deputies voted last week, 66-to-22, to ask Minister of Interior Miguel Culaciati to explain why he had not suppressed "the activities of the German National Socialist Party, which continues to function in Argentina under the name of the Federation of German Welfare and Cultural Clubs...
...goat-bearded, argumentative agnostic was London University's Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchison Joad, who once asserted (on the dust-jacket of his Testament of Joad): "I can explain anything to anybody." For the last 18 months he has carried out this threat on a popular BBC radio program, "The Brains Trust." But of late radio fans have noticed a decreasing cockiness in Brain Truster Joad's answers. One shrewd lady listener wrote him that he seemed to be walking a tightrope between the mountain of faith and the abyss of doubt, and that she prayed every night...
...Providence, R.I. Journal ran advertisements in five key-city Midwest newspapers, sent reprints to some 500 editors of other papers. The purpose: explain the East's plight, poll Midwest sentiment on rationing of gasoline and fuel oils. Responding by the hundreds, Midwesterners affirmed they were willing to accept rationing-when the reason for it is understood...
...been converted to a special brand of "Biblical Hebrew" faith, different from both Orthodox and Reformed Judaism. He also announced forthcoming publication of the first 2,000-odd-page volume of a new translation of the Bible called The Bible in the Hands of Its Creator. Its purpose: to explain for the first time the world's current ills, dispose of the Bible's apparent inconsistencies, in so doing, spell the doom of Hitler...