Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifth. Keep rigorous office schedules and listen to the maximum number of persons with the greatest patience and humaneness...
...tests for inferiority it is interesting to note that those choosing the vocation of teacher have the highest feeling of inferiority. It is this type of person who seeks a protective profession with a maximum of security and with guarantee of superior respect. The tendency is. of course, unconscious hut it has been true for a number of years that the students showing the highest inferiority score have inclined to the teaching profession...
...White House-a fact which gave the Swanson Policy Sheet a new ring of determination, sent a thrill of hope and elation throughout the service. Like his predecessor, Secretary Swanson promised: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none . . . "To develop the Navy to a maximum in battle strength . . . "To organize the Navy so that expansion only will be necessary in the event of war . . . "To make foreign cruises to cultivate friendly international relations . . . ''To encourage the art of naval warfare." Familiar to all naval officers were such fighting phrases in Policy Sheets. They meant much...
...action and when I say men, I mean males and females. Our light is to abolish the price system. Bayonets will line up those who wilfully refuse to join the movement. The Roosevelt raw deal is the greatest boloney ever perpetrated. In eight weeks inventories will be at a maximum. If production hits the 1929 level 12,000,000 will still be unemployed. The country is being fed hooey." To another assemblage Howard Scott the Technocrat glided and, despite objections, mounted its platform. A hotel detective came running to stop the clamor. Howard Scott the Technocrat left. Then, rapidly, General...
...Washington bowl was the cotton textile industry. Week before a cotton textile code had been turned in to General Johnson. He thought the industry had done "a very beautiful job" even though its minimum wage fell $4.40 per week short of General Johnson's own standard and its maximum week was eight hours longer than that he specified over the radio. Hearings on this cotton code were to begin this week and were counted on to develop the procedure for the whole recovery administration...