Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrison's recent campaign was apparently directed wholly at U. S. brokers handpicked .for their innocence. According to the instrument giving him his commission he was to have deposited to his account ?200 for each ?500 membership sold, a 40% fee. He at first announced that only 50 memberships would be allotted to New York, but last week it came out that he had authority to sell as many as he could...
...attempted to see in this issue. One is a review of "The Late George Apley", the other a well-buttressed sensible plea for the creation of an athletic endowment fund at Harvard. If undergraduate criticism of academic administration were always as judicious as this last, it might become an instrument of real service to the University...
...year-old artist's model was found stretched dead on a bed. Beneath the bed was the almost naked body of the girl's mother, also murdered. In an adjoining room, pillowed in a pool of blood, stabbed through the skull eleven times by some sharp instrument such as an ice pick or an awl, was a murdered man, a roomer in the apartment...
...burning of churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive and impotent public. . . . The regime was that of Parliamentarianism gone mad. . . . The extremists of the Popular Front knew well how to maintain themselves without the Cabinet. The latter was nothing more than a pliable instrument, the mere plaything of the real power...
FORTUNE concludes: 1) that the errors of pilots could be corrected by inaugurating more rigid training in instrument flying; 2) that the Department of Commerce should immediately double its radio beacon ranges and Weather Bureau stations; 3) that the Government should simplify flying regulations; 4) that the operators should speedily develop an infallible blind landing system...