Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collection was on display. The rest, saved for future shows, included the art of 45 Indian tribes, dating back to 300 A.D., along with 62,000 books, letters and manuscripts. Among the letters was one from Christopher Columbus' son, Diego, to Charles I of Spain. Another, written by General George Custer, ends: "You will next hear from me . . . not from the plains of Philippi . . . but from those of Dakota, the home of S.B." The initials stood for Custer's Sioux conqueror, Sitting Bull...
...Videla, Italy's Premier de Gasperi and France's Leon Blum. There were Verdi arias and Rooseveltian folksongs (Ballad for FDR, The Face on the Dime), and jokes by Milton Berle (see PEOPLE). Big business was represented by RCA's David Sarnoff, the Armed Forces by General Walter Bedell Smith, Government by FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock and New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer. Eleanor Roosevelt said: "I am very glad and I'm sure my husband would have been very glad that his initials will be the call letters of WFDR...
...homes. There was "strong underlying consumer demand," said FRB, "if goods were available at prices and qualities considered attractive." So far the price cuts on many things had not been great enough to coax out the "strong underlying consumer demand." And despite the drop in commodities and the general business recession, many an item in the cost of living was not following the trend. For example, meat, which had dropped, had gone up again. But those industries which had gone through their own recessions and cut prices had found that the bottom was not so far down as they...
Claire kept right on helping her father after her marriage in 1930 to blond Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, Stanford fullback and captain (1928). She also became a general (inactive) partner with a sizable interest in Biff's brokerage firm, and the company got its share of Bank of America business. But Claire Hoffman never took a public part in her father's bank or her husband's business; she has spent much of her quiet life riding, playing golf (in the 90s) and helping the Y.W.C.A. Said brother L.M.: "She's a good businesswoman ... a hardheaded person...
...prices, markets, etc.-was not going along satisfactorily. Furthermore, deconcentration-the actual sale of assets held or controlled by the cartels-had got nowhere, partly because of Allied political differences. The committee recommended deconcentration of the plants of the I.G. Farben empire, a mainstay of the Nazi war machine. General Lucius Clay, then Military Governor of Germany, retorted that any further break-up of German enterprises "would be a political and not a security measure." His staff, which got much of the blame from the committee, was even sharper. Sneered his economic adviser Lawrence Wilkinson: the Ferguson report...