Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress created the job of U. S. Comptroller General and gave him the duty of passing on all Government expenditures to make sure they conformed to the law. So Congress tried to keep the power of the purse in its own hands. Result when Franklin Roosevelt began to spend was an awful series of squabbles between the open-handed New Deal and crusty Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. When Mr. McCarl's 15-year term of office expired two and a half years ago, Franklin Roosevelt did not bother to appoint a successor. In his great Reorganization Bill...
Twice the President miscalculated. Richard Nash Elliott, a bald, chunky Republican of 65 who served Indiana in Congress for 14 years and was named Assistant Comptroller General by Hoover in 1931, automatically became Acting Comptroller. At first he was accounted an amenable stooge. Of Mr. McCarl's dogged devotion to duty, he amiably remarked: "Times and conditions change...
Fortnight ago McKesson & Robbins went into temporary equity receivership (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week Treasurer Thompson appeared before New York's Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall to tell how his suspicions of the company's crude drug department, which reported profits yearly but always "plowed them back" into inventory had finally forced a showdown. Mr. McCall decided to arrest Messrs. Coster and Dietrich, who ran McKesson & Robbins' mysterious crude drug department...
...doctors, research problem No. 1 is cancer. No. 1 sleuth organization is the recently established National Advisory Cancer Council, a branch of the U. S. Public Health Service. Several months ago Surgeon General Thomas Parran appointed a committee of five eminent researchers* to correlate all the facts discovered about the cause and growth of cancer in the last 30 years. Last week the U. S. Public Health Service released the scientists' report. Significant facts...
...poet committed to the task of making words make sense, Laura Riding prefaces her poems with one of the most straightforward yet complete declarations of a poet's purpose yet published. "A poem is an uncovering of truth of so fundamental and general a kind that no other name besides poetry is adequate except truth. . . . Truth is the result when reality as a whole is uncovered by those faculties which apprehend in terms of entirety, rather than in terms merely of parts. The person who writes a poem for the right reasons has felt the need of exercising such...