Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These painful episodes were neither continuous nor frequent, but they kept up. Last winter they became intolerable. In February LaGuardia told Room Niners that he wouldn't talk to them again until they learned how to quote him accurately. In the spring, overworked and editorially battered, he resigned as head of the Office of Civilian Defense. By then he showed unmistakable signs of being unable to distinguish between criticism of his public acts and his oversensitive self...
Trouble is that the businessman is yet to be found who is able to get anything done by dealing with one Government agency. Frequent frantic trips are usually necessary to get the O.K. of a dozen or more agencies and commissions for the simplest of transactions. Only bureaucratic control of travel rationing will stop it. Best bet: it won't be bureaucratic control...
...methods of organization and soliciting. Special ventures such as charging five ten-cent war stamps per head at House dances, or urging Coca-Cola to contribute ten cases of their product, and selling the bottles at ten cents in stamps at the fall balls, should become a frequent occurrence. The forth-coming door-to-door pledge drive must be complete and efficient, covering every room. If the present system of collection at House dining halls has proven itself the most effective, the salesmen at the table should be more aggressive. They should lay down Life, Click, and even Time...
Always he used to say, "I'd rather be president of the Union Pacific than president of the United States." A hard man but fair, he got to the top by loyalty and frequent fights with those who opposed him and by having no interests except the Union Pacific ("The Railroad" to him). He reached the goal in 1937, succeeding the late great Carl Raymond Gray...
...Most frequent criticism of the Council and its program is the complaint that America should devote all of its attention to winning the war. The Council's answer is contained in a flyer distributed throughout the college in the last few days...