Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Survey now shows on almost complete returns that 54.7% of the electorate approve Mr. Roosevelt, 34.4% disapprove and 10.9% "don't know." This indicates practically no change in popular sentiment since 1936. As to Congress, 47.2% think it should work more closely with the President, and 40.6% prefer it to behave independently. FORTUNE'S conclusion: "Whether business can stand two, four or six years more of what Mr. Roosevelt stands for is beside the point, Business may have no choice in the matter. For the chances that any important number of Mr. Roosevelt's men will...
...special field, and the tutors are all good. It is a field in which reason and intelligence are stressed, not memory, and is therefore a good place for individual criticism. Moreover the subject is one which most people will be running into later in life and should undoubtedly know something about
Dean seemed to want to know more about "this guy Conant," so he was informed of the Hicks question. This was a little too baffling, however, and he was more interested in telling his interviewer about how he was "gonna mow 'em down" after ten days or so. The pride of Deanville also had no comment to make on the Littauer School of Public Administration...
...Pereles graduated from the Law School in 1907. He became Secretary of the Harvard Club of Milwaukee in 1908. He became President of that Club in 1913. He became Secretary of the Associated Harvard Clubs in 1923. Today he is said to know more Harvard graduates than any other living man. For thirty years he had devoted his energies to serving the University, organizing Harvard Clubs, securing speakers, encouraging gifts, "assisting promising youths to enter the College," keeping graduates active in the work of Harvard and the world alive to that work...
...MacLaren was a little girl she decided to become an elocutionist after she heard a Chautauqua performer recite The Bobolink. The high point of this performance was a trill: cheeeeeee, prrrrrrr, cheeeeeeeeeeeeee, which Gay practiced so hard her South Dakota neighbors asked her if she didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players, ventriloquists...