Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Leader-Tribune. Tracy McCraken bought the depressed weekly Eagle, edged it along seven years until the popularity of the New Deal gave him his big chance in 1933. Then he made the Eagle a free circulation Democratic daily. In a few months he hit on the big McCraken idea: into his morning tabloid he inserted-for paid subscribers only-a four-page section of local editorial comment, fiction, comics. His'best stunt was to run a serial or comic in the free sheet, then switch it to the paid insert. Thus he gradually converted free readers into paying...
Freshman Coach Harvey Love had divided the crews as evenly as possible, and he intimated that he had no idea which shell would...
Longtime pastor of St. Stephen's Church, whose congregation of 25,000 was Manhattan's largest, Priest McGlynn first irritated his superiors by opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth...
...This analysis of lymph function," concluded astonished Dr. Drinker, "leaves us with the idea that the lymphatic system is organized solely as a bulwark against the natural development of tissue abnormality and against infection...
...think I ought to say something here about the fundamentals underlying the union movement. . . . Men will band together on the basis of craft, and with some sense, the idea being hundreds of years old. To hold that machine operators cannot be organized on the same basis is due to ignorance of the job itself. From the standpoint of organizing it is expedient and lucrative, but to say that a toolmaker or first-class grinder should concern himself with the plight of his union brother who is pushing a truck is taking a pretty general viewpoint. This...