Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve years I worked for one concern in New York City as assistant to the District Sales Manager, having general office supervision, dictating much of the correspondence, and was trained as a sales representative handling sales by mail and telephone. Four years ago this concern dispensed with District Managers and the New York office closed. Since then I have tried continuously to reestablish myself in the same field, and in others. Briefly, in these efforts I tried all the recognized methods of obtaining employment -to no avail...
...officers & men, and 200,000 National Guardsmen & Reserves who would comprise an Initial Protective Force of 400,000-the Army to bear the first brunt of war while drafted citizens are being trained. The Roosevelt estimates (including the "educational" $32,000,000) would just about fill out General Craig's minimum program...
...shrewd question to which few U. S. citizens have an articulate answer. The General Staff of the Army believe that only Britain could invade North or South America, that Germany with all her air fleet could not do so because of her minuscule navy and shortage of transports, that Japan might seize the Philippines but hardly cross the Pacific...
...Washington's Naval Hospital, death from heart disease came suddenly last week to Herman Oliphant, 54, grey-locked, hollow-eyed general counsel of the Treasury Department. It left the Treasury bereft of the most earnest economic experimenter remaining there since the withdrawal of the late Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936. All but the bare principle of that tax, which Franklin Roosevelt loved...
...mercilessly public spot a U. S. citizen can go, before Senate Committee for public inspection, last week went the three highest appointees of Franklin Roosevelt's Fourth New Deal. Before blinking flashlights, surrounded by a battery of anti-New Deal Senators, the new Supreme Court Justice, new Attorney General, new Secretary of Commerce-three men of the boldest New Deal stripe -made their bows to the nation. Their confirmation was a foregone conclusion, but they and their opponents knew that the impression that they gave might well affect the future course of politics. Each put on an able, articulate...