Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt established the Presidential press conference as an institution. No other U.S. President had ever been so regularly accessible to newsmen. McKinley on occasion had stepped to the White House door, chatted briefly and uninformatively with reporters. Theodore Roosevelt had used favorite correspondents for "trial balloon" stories and consigned...
Explaining the function of the International Bank, Professor Hansen stressed the analogy between the background and aims of this world banking institution and the Federal Housing Administration in this country. Just as the financing of home construction in the United States was plagued by the insecurity of leans and "fantastic...
"I know of no more worthy project in the University," declared Dr. Bock, "from whatever point of view the institution as a whole may regard the welfare of young men. I doubt if any donor of such a building could find a more rewarding use for the funds."
The Atlanta Annual at first (1942) got a lukewarm reception from Atlanta's white citizens. Local newspapers paid it little or no attention. But a few of the city's strong-minded art lovers gave it a good hand. For one, burly Editor Ralph McGill offhandedly plugged the...
For a dozen years, suave, fox-faced John J. Anthony has been dishing out glib, categorical advice-by-radio to people with tough personal problems. (Sample Anthonyism: "[I] have found that marriage as an institution is probably the most desirable human association.") Last week, Mr. Anthony had a tough professional...