Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare is the celebration or exposition which, when held, is not claimed as "my idea originally" by a camp following of crack-pate "inventors." Rarer is the inventor who actually did have the idea and, rarer still, got paid...
...cosmopolite cousin) with plans for reclaiming the land, pumping up new land, dredging channels, etc. etc. When more prominent persons became interested, complained Engineer Shadgen, he had been shunted aside. A lawyer friend of Maestro Whalen's had persuaded him to sign away his rights to the Fair idea and accept instead a $625-a-month job at which he spent ten months "sharpening pencils" before he was fired, angry and humiliated. Engineer Shadgen was now suing the Fair for $1,000,000 and charging bad faith...
Engineer Shadgen, a fiftyish native of Luxemburg, has had his ups & downs in engineering, at one time making as high as $150,000 a year. He credits his daughter Jacqueline, now 16, with really having the Fair idea first. In 1934, when she learned that the U. S. would be 150 years old in 1939, she asked her father if anyone was planning to celebrate. When he said no, she said: "Why don't you do it, Daddy?" That got him started. He picked the Flushing marshes because he lived near them, in Jackson Heights. He does not consider...
...Whose idea was that," Counsel Biddle asked...
...lecture here last Thursday afternoon Jacques Maritain, noted French philosopher, declared that today the world's greatest need is a Christian revolution based on the idea of "brotherly love" and a reacknowledgement of "divine guidances" in world affairs...