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Naturally, if you are not potbellied, the epithet rolls off you like water from a duck's back. But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!" That is your modus operandi! How do you like it applied to yourself? I hope it raises your blood pressure...
...third-party chieftains and some 40 of their friends and associates at a pleasant farmhouse near Hudson, Wis. The meeting on the Potomac looked like simple Roosevelt curiosity. The barbecue on the Hudson farm looked like the beginning of a national alliance, or at least of local modus vivendi, between two once faithful Roosevelt allies...
...Packing the court would establish a precedent that would permanently destroy the usefulness of the tribunal. Two alternatives are left; wait for the more conservative members to die, or amend the Constitution. If the President is willing to wait several years, the former method would be a smooth modus operandi. The more democratic and efficient method, however, is that of admendment. The overwhelming support given Mr. Roosevelt on Election Day augurs well for a speedy and cooperative ratification of any reasonable change proposed...
...stimulate further investigation. However, we are unable, at the present time, to state on what scientific basis this treatment rests. Several physiological processes have come to mind, and it is our purpose to pursue this subject further with the hope that we may be able to demonstrate its modus operandi...
...arrangement to keep the 50 tycoons content: They should discuss their reports with his New Dealers in order to appreciate the official attitude, should discuss them with him in person, then, having been enlightened, revise their reports and publish them. This seemed to the President an excellent modus vivendi and no one doubted that it would work unless the tycoons, after conference with New Dealers, still insisted on being critical of Administration policies...