Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There seems to be a clearly defined belief on the part of many administration officials," warned Lincoln B. Palmer, general manager of A. N. P. A., "that advertising is a social and economic waste, that it should be included as a marketing cost; that even harmless trade claims should be prohibited; and that all advertisements should be strictly factual. . . . We are informed that a recently published book by Dr. Tugwell and Howard C. Hill entitled Our Economic Society is proposed to be used as an economic textbook in social science classes for the purpose of implanting anti-advertising propaganda...
...trip last year, and Postmaster General Farley on his Texas junket to "rediscover" Vice President Garner; that the Post Office Department has been willing to hold up a mail plane for an hour or so to suit the convenience of a Cord hot-shot official. But none of these harmless facts webs with others to produce any picture other than that of an alert organization headed by an astute, scheming, self-effacing businessman who knows how and where grand parsnips can be found and buttered. His suspicious critics notwithstanding, it is impossible to read anything subtle into the grandiose interview...
Each morning in your editorial columns appear with harmless regularity bits of innocuous criticism concerning University policy on stale and moot points while standing out in bold relief before your very eyes are all the flagrant flaws against which you refuse to act. It is relative to one of these flaws that I send this communication to you: The Eliot Night Lunch. Students are enticed by convenience of location into this subterranean palace where they are told that by a simple signature most marvelous things are produced. The scheme would be a very commendable one if it were...
...sugar lobby, however, and considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless compared with the beam of depression. The McDuffie Bill remains a rough-hewn measure, but, even if Congress insists on eating its cake and having it too, there's time to munch the crumbs later. JUDAS...
...Crime has been more rampant since roped because former bootleggers have been forced to turn from the liquor trade which was comparatively harmless to the peace of the country, to robbery, holdups, and murder. Gunmen have no longer the occupation of promoting their employers' trade from them gangs and thus have been turned from in society. As time goes on they will to come more and more dangerous as their supplies of ready cash dwindle away...