Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bacharach was the veterans' hero, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon logically became their villain last week when he wrote a strong public letter objecting to this bonus legislation. The gist of his argument was that the Treasury could not stand the financial strain. Predicting a $500,000,000 deficit next July (last estimate: $350,000,000), he declared the measure created "a potential liability of $1,720,000,000"-that is, if all veterans borrowed to the limit. The Treasury, he explained, had some $772,000,000 securities in a sinking fund reserve to pay off the bonus...
Because influenza this year is of a mild type which has not often caused pneumonia,* the health men are not greatly concerned. Nonetheless, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service saw fit to advise the public last week on how to guard themselves. His gist: "Go home and go to bed. . . . Call the doctor . . . remain in bed; eat a simple diet; take plenty of fluids such as water, fruit juices, milk, bouillon and hot soups at frequent intervals. . . . Do not take any so-called cure. There is no specific cure...
...George Woodward Wickersham had brought it in a large manila envelope before 9 a. m., left it with a secretary. Running his eye through its 286 printed pages. President Hoover could perceive that it was simply one colossal job of weaseling. "Let us try a little longer," was its gist...
...Young as a "public servant," Dr. Butler said: "Whether a public servant receives office or not is accidental, and if that public servant does assume office by accident, it is as apt as not to reduce a great deal of the public servant's public service." Though the gist of Mr. Young's speech had to do with international War debts and leniency of creditor to debtor in hard times (see p. 16), it contained undertones such as might be found in the words of any presidential possibility. Excerpts: "We need to know more of the world...
...lofty New York Times, not a client of United Press, was apparently guilty of caginess and poor sportsmanship. Two days late it printed a story from its Tokyo correspondent stating that the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun (U. P. client) was carrying an interview with Stalin. It then repeated the gist of the interview which was, of course, United Pressman Lyons'. A few days later Times Correspondent Duranty got his interview with Stalin. Certainly by that time the Times was well aware of the U. P. "heat." Yet the Duranty story referred only to "Japanese correspondents" as recent interviewers...