Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Sherman said: 'Madam, you got spunk'"). Last week Atlanta was more self-conscious of its present and its past than any other U. S. town...
...Fortnight ago, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes watched with bright red face while Gridiron Club members portrayed him as Donald Duck, the frenzied squawker. Last week, "Honest Harold"* engaged General Hugh Johnson in debate in Newark, said: "We are both contesting for the post of Donald Duck of Public Affairs...
...Said General Johnson of Mr. Roosevelt: "A third term . . . a fourth and a fifth term . . . a 15th term, and finally elect Jimmy Roosevelt and then start all over again...
...November, Britain and France agreed to hold hands economically as long as the war lasts. Last week, just to make sure, they joined themselves with silver handcuffs. The earlier agreement was to cooperate in the general fields of munitions, raw materials, economic warfare, oil, food, shipping. Last week's agreement covered the commodity which controls all those fields-money...
...Allied labor also banded. In the elegant Paris headquarters of Confederation Generale du Travail, C. G. T.'s Secretary General Leon Jouhaux played host to Sir Walter Citrine, since 1926 Secretary General of the British Trades Union Congress, in the first of a series of monthly conferences on the two countries' labor problems. Last week the problems seemed to be all on the French side. Leader Jouhaux complained that his followers, theoretically on a 40-hour week, work 72. Though he claims nearly 1,000,000 members, he is allowed no representation in war ministries...