Word: manifeste
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...bitter that $500,000,000 should be cut for pork but not for economy, assisted. But the earmarking bloc remained in the saddle. The Administration leaders had to resort to a filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being rushed to passage. The temper of the House was made manifest when an amendment was adopted limiting any WPA salary to $10,000. No name needed to be mentioned: the amendment meant $2,000 off the pay of Harry Hopkins and no one else...
Acutely aware that the U. S. now expects a greater sense of responsibility from its bankers than was manifest in the 19205, the bankers last week were strictly on good behavior. Revealing that his and President Gordon Rentschler's salaries had been boosted from $75,000 to $100,000, Chairman James Handasyd Perkins of Manhattan's National City Bank warned that "it is the duty of banks to do all in their power to avoid the pitfalls which increased prosperity creates." Cried Har vey Dow Gibson to applauding stockholders in his Manufacturers Trust: "As a nation we seem...
...arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Aug. 31) of which English Professor Henry Noel Brailsford wrote that it was based on "three manifest impossibilities." Watching the trial, New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny cabled "This correspondent confesses that the psychology of these prisoners, ardently condemning themselves, baffles...
When U. S. bankers made their peace with the Administration in 1934, the manufacturers stepped into the breach, became the President's most violent non-political detractors. That the Nation's industrialists were now going to "cooperate" with the White House if it killed them was manifest from the quantity and quality of NAM members' pacific protestations...
...piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...