Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Funniest scenes: Actor Howard shocking a stuffy breakfast group with a Shakespearean outburst on an improperly cooked kipper; Comic Blore trying to signal his master by frantic birdcalls, over determined competition from a nearby aviary...
...last week President Roosevelt had a long talk with Clyde Leroy Seavey, acting chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Administrator John M. Carmody of the Rural Electrification Administration and Ervin E. King, Master of the Washington State Grange, in whose bailiwick the Government is building the great Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project. When reporters trooped in later for the regular press conference, they found the President full of thoughts on Power. He launched into a long dissertation on the theory of utility rates. By the time the reporters were free to head for telephones, they had a front-page business story...
Sitting in an easy chair while he listened to a radio rendition of "You Can't Take That Away from Me," the baggage master, solo guardian of the trunks, appeared to have the situation well in hand...
...shows us how to change all this The way to eliminate these unfortunate paradoxes is not by authoritative planning that seeks to master the market, not by the overhead control of the New Deal's gradual collectivism but through liberalism that "seeks to perfect and civilize the market." Mr. Lippmann proposes to civilize the market through "social control by the common...
Other week-end guests of Mr. Conant will include Presidents Douglas of McGill, Seymour of Yale, and James Phinney Baxter of Williams, former master of Adams House...