Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no doubt that Major General Vaughan has "used the White House as a means of playing low-grade county-courthouse politics," but the responsibility for this . . . rests not with Vaughan but with his boss, who, incidentally, is no innocent babe in the political woods...
Besides stock brokerage accounts, Merrill Lynch hoped to interest prospective traders in the commodity futures market, showing farmers that they could use it to protect them against unexpected price breaks and get better prices for their crops. One farmer who listened to an explanation of how General Mills buys & sells futures, not to speculate but to hedge itself against inventory losses, commented: "And here I thought all the time that they were just playing craps with my corn...
...first on the draw. So the New Mexican's first two-page issue carried a "let's-be-friends" note: "The New Mexican, in Politics and Religion, will maintain a strict neutrality, regarding partisanship as utterly unnecessary and a barrier to the general good...
Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue...
Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue...