Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan in which there had been costly breakdowns the greater-than-expected total cost was cited by the Gosplan as evidence of "over-fulfillment." Copies of the official statistics issued by the state in languages other than Russian were again found to omit qualifying footnotes and other matter the absence of which made the second Five-Year Plan results read more optimistically in English, French or German than in the Russian text...
Before breaking with Nahas Pasha the King had proposed that his differences with the Premier, chiefly about matters of political patronage and spending of the Egyptian treasury's secret political funds (TIME, Jan. 3), should be arbitrated by a high tribunal to be composed of all living former Premiers, former speakers of the Egyptian Parliament and high legal officers. This royal offer Premier El Nahas, who has a huge majority in the present Parliament, refused, declaring: "Only Parliament is able to adjudicate this matter...
...eight devote to reading and passing judgment on the 600 "first-class" manuscripts that come in each week from literary agents and to replying to some 90 letters apiece each day from inquiring, laudatory or abusive readers. It is an old Lorimer custom that no matter how trivial or routine the communication, it must get a personal reply from the editor or one of his associates. The carbons of the replies are then circulated to all the other members of the editorial staff...
...room and in a blank dummy of the magazine which is to reach subscribers and newsstands four weeks hence, makes up. Between fixed points-the front page, the editorial page and the Campbell's Soup ad-the nation's favorite magazine reading matter, written and bought from a year to a week before,* is arranged. A good cook needs no recipe and the Post's editors follow a make-up routine which is unstated. It is, however, inflexible within its limits: four articles, four or five fiction-pieces, editorial, Post Scripts, Keeping Posted (writers...
...model of efficiency. Colonel Muhlenberg, son of a German who in 1748 organized the first American Lutheran federation, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, had gone to Woodstock in 1772 after journeying to England to be ordained an Anglican minister, since the Colony's laws required that all its ministers, no matter what their sect, be nominally of the Established Church. A member of that province's House of Burgesses, Muhlenberg fought in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Yorktown, was a major general at the close of the Revolution. A friend of Jefferson and Monroe, he represented Pennsylvania in Congress...