Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year and a half ago tall, robust Edwin Augustus Lee conceived a stunt to dramatize these facts. Dr. Lee, a former San Francisco school superintendent, is director of the National Occupational Conference, which was founded in 1922-under the leadership of General Robert Irwin Rees, head of the A.E.F.'s University in France in 1918-19-to gather facts about jobs. Dr. Lee herded 13 top-rank public-school superintendents into a private Pullman and for ten days, with their expenses paid by the Carnegie Corporation, these superintendents toured the schools of eight cities. They found interesting experiments...
Last week Colonel James Alfred Moss, president general of the U.S. Flag Association, piped up, explained all. The answer: "...If eating at a table, talking over the telephone, playing cards, cooking a meal or taking a bath, standing at attention would be forced and unnatural and therefore should not be done...
...twelve financial corporations in the same class....In each of 22 sovereign States of this Federal Union, according to the World Almanac for 1938, the assessed valuation on real property was less than one billion dollars....In each of 16 States the total valuation of all property subject to general property tax was less than one billion dollars....The assets of each of those giant corporations are subject to authoritarian control by the corporate managers while the control a State exercises over the property within its boundaries is rigidly limited....Each of these corporations has an influence that is national...
...unbalance finally brought the event the industry has been hoping against-widespread cuts in the price of crude oil. Initiated by small independents in the non-prorated States of Louisiana and Arkansas, the cuts were soon adopted by everyone, dropping the price from $1.22 to about $1.02, the first general cut since NRA. Thus brought into the open was a paradox which may knock the complex proration system galley-west: an efficient method of controlling production has been worked out, but since the Federal antitrust suit against the oil industry at Madison, Wis. last year, there has been...
Radicalism. General agreement is reached by George Soule, Evelyn Scott, Harold Stearns that the organized left-wing movement has progressed slowly, in politics as in literature, partly because it has misread the spontaneous revolutionary forces in U.S. life, partly because Leftists have not put their personal lives in order...