Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws and conditions in Britain-and Sweden-this summer. Conspicuously absent was a representative of C.I.O., but John L. Lewis would have no part in any study that might lead to altering the Wagner Labor Act. Mostly of good calibre, the Commission was notably mixed, including the president of General Electric Co. and the principal of Mrs. Roosevelt's Todhunter School for Girls...
Gerard Swope, president of General Electric...
...only one-fifth of the $500,000 expense money it voted, and because of the six Congress members at least one, Representative Eicher of Iowa, is an Administration wheelhorse, the six executives will doubtless dominate the committee's policy. Significantly, not the President but his trust-busting Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson announced the names...
Hero. In spite of their preoccupation with strictly professional problems, the delegates paused this year for the first time to salute a colleague for high general medical achievement. To Surgeon Rudolph Matas of New Orleans went their first annual Distinguished Service Medal, given for "meritorious service in the science and art of medicine." Stout, little Dr. Matas, 1895-1927 Tulane professor of surgery, was one of the world's first doctors to use local anesthetics. He invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest...
...young French writers and a large share of the general population, an election to the French Academy has no more relation to literature or life than the changing of the Guard at London's Whitehall. But Academicians themselves, of whom Academician Anatole France said that their literary ineptitude was exceeded only by their skill in intrigue, take it with deadly seriousness. Votes are traded, sponsors courted, wires pulled, ceaseless lobbies conducted in social and political circles, usually evoking more public amusement than concern...