Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement that a secret clause virtually established a preferential shop and that this meant that henceforth all new workers would be supplied directly through the unions is not correct," Lowes asserted...
...banks as an example, this was naturally taken to mean all holding companies, not just utility holding companies. At his first press conference last week he remarked that he had not used the word in a dictionary sense. At his second, he dwelt on the fact that he had meant only utility and bank holding companies. And to the Advisory Council he retracted even to the point of admitting that "proper" utility holding companies are "advantages for the public good...
Last month President Roosevelt sent his nomination to the Senate. Vexed, the eleven Western Senators demanded public hearings before the Public Lands Committee. Hearings on Mr. Burlew meant hearings on the Interior Department, and Senators who are not fond of uppity Mr. Ickes have been itching to investigate that Department. Members of the Public Lands Committee cocked their cigars at a truculent angle and began to ask Mr. Burlew questions. Within two days they had turned up a story of the sort that investigating committees dream...
Last week, facing another depression, M. M. & M. reverted to Diamond Jim's original formula. President Robert Ross Wason, who is also president of Zonite Products Corp., this time decided to expand his sales force, began by increasing it 25%. This meant adding only nine men, but this is a large addition in a field where individual orders may run as high as $500,000. Mindful that when M. M. & M. bought Philadelphia's Box, Crane & Hoist Corp. in 1932 such methods boosted its share of the hoist business from 2.2% to 15% within the five years, Sales...
...their studies are some passages from 'such pundits as Plato, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, President Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Henry Ford. He even damns an excerpt from his own writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas of "com-munism," "democracy," "capitalism," says Chase, would show as much confusion. Users of such terms, he declares, "are like motorists...