Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urged Business to hire more men. Little did he foresee that Business would hire not from Relief rolls but from the ablest young lawyers and executives on the Government's payrolls. For Business, which could spare them during Depression, now wants them back, because they are able and know the New Deal ropes...
...Ambassador-Designate Davies regards these preparations he confided to friends in the dining room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one day last week. "We are going to live in Moscow very quietly, very simply," said he. " 'When in Rome,' you know. . . . We'll have just the comforts one ordinarily has in America. We are taking our own staff of servants. But, you may say, we shall have a minimum menage...
...Glasgow and Edinburgh view, history will soon begin to record that altogether too many subjects of King George VI are altogether too unsatisfied with what little they know about how Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin secured the abdication and departure of King Edward (TIME, Dec. 21). The fact that Edward VIII had apparently quit, and was even being called contemptuously a "quitter" last week, failed to appease the patient resolve of Scotsmen to know all, sooner or later. The adjournment of the House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish...
...they're buying." Setting a new high in Stock Exchange frankness, President Gay continued: "We have a number of Federal rules and regulations, set up to protect the security buyer by making it easier to get all the facts needed in studying values. But as far as I know there are no laws to protect buyers from speculating on a hit-or-miss basis, and that's where potential danger lies...
...think Houdini could have done anything more phenomenal than the Van Sweringens did," scoffed Senator Wheeler. "They regained control of their vast empire without putting up a five-cent piece." Mr. Ball, unexpected inheritor of the Van Sweringen empire, had to confess time & again that he did not even know what kind of business many of the 286 Van Sweringen corporations were engaged in. He had put its management in the hands of Herbert Fitzpatrick, Van Sweringen attorney...