Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laymen got some idea of the magnitude and complexity of G. M.'s production mechanism when it was calculated that closing of the Flint plant which makes Chevrolet motors would force closing, whether workers had struck or not, of Chevrolet assembly and parts plants in Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich.; Toledo and Norwood, Ohio; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Janesville, Wis.; Oakland, Calif.; Buffalo and Tarrytown, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Bloomfield...
...Vice-Burgomaster, who performed the ceremony, lectured them in the same Dutch-uncle vein as the Burgomaster of The Hague used in lecturing Their Royal Highnesses. After completing the marriage with a stroke of his gavel, the Vice-Burgomaster concluded, "You two young people must not get the idea that you are of any importance just because all these people have come here while you are married. Your marriage would never have been noticed had it not been celebrated on the same day as that of our Crown Princess. You are not of the least importance. I offer my congratulations...
...Aminta Milani has proved a difficult one. Long known to be gruffly impatient of other people's illnesses, so that wise underlings kept out of his sight when ailing, Pius XI resolutely declined to undergo a thorough physical examination. He not only was shocked at the idea of appearing naked before anyone but even balked at having his pulse counted, until lately Dr. Milani managed to excite his interest in the technique of this simple operation. One story ladled out last fortnight by the "Vatican Voices" was that for no less than three months the Pope and his ancient...
...articles which is not accurate." Mrs. Simpson cabled back, said Mr. Noyes: "No intention whatsoever my part damage your personal or professional reputation. . . . You constantly refer to 'job you both asked me to do." I have talked to other party, who assures me he had no idea you were even going to write an article but believed you were simply going to use your American press connections to correct picture of me personally in America. Neither of us dreamed you would bring his name into your story, capitalizing your presence for a few hours in his house...
Germinating in Mr. Ernst's mind the past three years has been another idea: a guild for lawyers that would give them a freedom for liberal thought and action not provided by the A. B. A. and its House of Delegates. Last autumn Mr. Ernst and some friends wrote a terse 500-word "Appeal to American Lawyers" which pulled no punches, sent it far & wide to U. S. legalists over the name of Frank Patrick Walsh, onetime member of the War Labor Conference Board, now a Manhattan attorney, who agreed to act as Guild president in its organizational stages...