Word: fetishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph. His company has never joined either a trade association or a cartel or the NRA or a chamber of commerce. He had no bankers because he never needed them. The chemical industry is necessarily mysterious business but, with Allied's brilliant dictator, mystery was almost a fetish...
...ever larger numbers of students work their way through college, it has become a mater of course to assist them with scholarships, loans, an employment, a policy which the public approves with democratic enthusiasm. So keen is this fetish for higher education for all at any cost, that even the government offers indigent scholars approximately a million and a half dollars monthly...
...Grew Embassy what it is to many another. The Ambassador drives his staff, makes a fetish of seeing that they work the Service's statutory seven-hour day. Instead of "stealing" the bulk of his reports from his staff, an old trick of lazy diplomats, Ambassador Grew works up most of his own stuff, pecks it out with two fingers on a rickety typewriter. Specialists, of course, he must have. Small, crisp, sharp-nosed First Secretary Erie R. Dickover is the specialist on oil, the Embassy aide of the hour. For nine years stocky, dimple-cheeked Councilor of Embassy Edwin...
Speaking of museums, brings to mind a touching little item in the history of Fogg Art Museum's publicity efforts. It seems that the directors of the Fogg arranged for an exhibit of native African jewelfy, ceremonial masks, fetish figures, and other nick knacks so dear to the home-loving jungle resident. A report of the exhibit appeared in several newspapers...
...when a country refuses to accept gold as the final discharge of a commercial obligation, free trade and cancellation become sole alternatives. The choice between cancellation and free trade is politically no choice at all; and the outcome, even if no more than the destruction of another meaningless political fetish, the tariff, will have more than earned the professors their salt...