Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leadership of the opposition is right now putting its full strength, in men and money, behind [Democratic primary] candidates in half a dozen States who have been most hostile to the things for which this Administration stands . . . not in a clean cut general election . . . but stealthily, within the councils of our own party...
...Monopoly Investigating Committee. Armed with subpoenas which they were instructed not to use unless necessary, SEC agents started looking into insurance investment practices (TIME, July 25), and Department of Justice agents delved into a study of patents. Two pronouncements this year by President Roosevelt, plus recommendations by Solicitor General Jackson and ex-Assistant Secretary of State Berle, indicate that the 100-year-old patent laws are due for an overhauling-if evidence confirms such suspicions as that big corporations suppress patents to block new products...
...then amount to about $5, leaving a neat $10 net for dealer and manufacturer. That Schick, first in the field, should lead in price-cutting was no surprise; that Packard, which has always been out to beard Schick, should cut further was no surprise either. Big surprise was that General Shaver Corp., a subsidiary of Remington-Rand Inc., which claims a current sales rate of 1,600,000 shavers per year, announced it would NOT tag along with the others on price revision...
Died. Dr. Victor Eduardo Verdades de Faria. 54, Portugal's Consul General at Manhattan; with his 38-year-old wife; when a train crashed into their automobile; in West Barnstable, Mass...
...before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted shortly afterward. In 1914 she married Captain Jan Smuts, cousin of South Africa's great general, settled down to obscurity minus the unlucky diamond. Last May she was discovered working as a $16.50-per-week WPA clerk...