Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago Manhattan's spunky 5 ft. 4 in. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia began bucking Postmaster General Jim Farley, Mayor Meyer Ellenstein of Newark...
Distinguished by an almost total absence of Dada clutter and by a powerful employment of Surrealist scale, lighting and perspective, the montages were the work of 40-year-old Jose Renau of Barcelona. For two years Leftist Director General of Fine Arts, charged with guarding Spanish art treasures and with planning the Spanish Pavilion at last year...
When hardworking, hardheaded young Joseph Vincent Connolly became general manager of the Hearst Newspapers nearly two months ago, Hearstlings throughout the country held on to their chairs and waited for the big blow. The Hearst realm, no longer ruled by its fabulous founder, was now in the hands of men who knew how to save money as well as spend it- and "Smiling Joe" Connolly was one of them. The Hearstian era of prodigality had definitely ended last year when the aging chief consented to the dissolution of his beloved but money-losing New York American (TIME, July...
...brighten the evening American, General Manager Connolly announced he would use two brand-new Hearstlings: Inez Callaway Robb, weaned away from Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News where she wrote a lively society column under the Newsname "Nancy Randolph," and Francis J. Powers, former sportswriter for the New York...
...Redefined its Monopoly Investigation. To the Independent Bankers Association in St. Paul, Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General in charge of trustbusting, likened business competition without effective anti-trust enforcement to a prizefight without a referee. Said he: "In such a contest the man who puts on brass knuckles will win. This situation will not be solved by hanging mottoes of fair play on the four posts of the ring. . . . We should not blame great industrial organizers. In a hard-played game, an aggressive team will go as far as the imposition of penalties permits, or else it will lose...