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...looked all the way across at darkest Russia, and had seen a church; Joseph Stalin squinted back and saw a picket line. In response to this recognition, the Soviet Foreign Commissariat appointed as Ambassador to the U.S. none other than Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, the bourgeois Communist, torchbearer for disarmament, handmaiden of collective security...
Concluded Dr. Bailey: "Massage-earlier massage-is the life-giver; adrenalin is its handmaiden...
...popular expenditures was only lightly explored at budget-time and has since been forgotten. Most agencies of the Government had done their best to conceal the existence of such expenditures. This year practically every expense, for whatever purpose, is labeled "for defense." Wrote Newshawk Smith wisely: "Cupidity is the handmaiden of national defense, or vice versa...
Today, although a few chiropodists practice in barbershops, chiropody is a highly respectable handmaiden of medi cine, requiring two years of college training, three or four years in one of six approved schools. Chiropodists like to be known as podiatrists because, to their horror, they are often confused with chiropractors...
...friend of Willis Ballinger and a professional viewer-with-alarm, popped up with a set of charts to show that "collapse" of the durable-goods market is due largely to monopolistic conditions. FTC Attorney PGad B. Morehouse developed the commission's belief thaft price control is the chief handmaiden of monopoly. And Princeton Professor Frank A. Fetter explained monopoly: "It is derivative of two Greek roots, 'monos,' alone, and 'polei, to sell, and it occurs in the Greek in two forms, feminine and neuter, 'monopolia and 'monopolion...