Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even better evidence that NRA lay dying came from NRA itself. Donald Richberg gave 1,500 NRA men a pep talk to put down their growing feeling that they had better forget NRA and look for jobs elsewhere. But when Senators called him to account for calling them muddle-heads, he excused himself, saying he felt free to speak, since he himself was planning to quit NRA soon, about July 1. Nor was he alone in that. W. Averell Harriman, NRA Administrative officer, and Sol Rosenblatt, Director of Compliance & Enforcement, were both reported ready to leave on June...
...reactionaries then triumphed, and these names been excluded, Harvard would have been long in living down the just accusation that she hated her enemies more than she hated needless human slaughter. Similarly when redbaiters, more fanatical than any red, forget that they are first men, and that only second are they Liberal, Conservative, Red, Republican, or Democrat, then those immoderate haters only show the shallowness of their own humankind-ness...
President Conant will forget University affairs for a brief hour today, when he lectures to Chemistry 2 on chlorophyll at 9 o'clock in the big lecture room in Mallinckrodt...
...whose cottage on Brandywine Street he endowed and refurnished. Between Cousin Bernard and Cousin Richard bad feeling has long existed. After Richard Gimbel had put the Philadelphia store into the black, his salary was cut and he was removed from control-an episode he never allows Cousin Bernard to forget since the store promptly sank into the red again and Cousin Richard had to be recalled. Few weeks ago the Board of Directors threatened to drop Richard from office again. The violent personal quarrel, which was destined to become the first public break in the Gimbel clan, concerned one Arthur...
...players have won laurels in countless tournaments. Yet so far as tennis is concerned, Harry constantly insists on playing for the game's sake, rather than for the sake of piling up an impressive winning streak. And those who have had the privilege of his instruction in squash never forget his emphasis on sportsmanship first, and victory second...