Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even more significant than the contract was its origin. Once the three had met, Henry Ford and Harry Bennett decided Homer Martin was a fine fellow. They did not revise their opinion of John L. Lewis, whom they do not consider fine. In this, Messrs. Ford and Bennett agree with Mr. Martin, who has actively disliked Mr. Lewis since the C. I. O. chairman put Vice Chairman Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman in control of U. A. W. two months...
Professor Rossby promised that further study will reveal more significant facts on the origin and dispersal of storms. Mean while, he suggested that it would be more practical for the Weather Bureau to supplement its pressure maps with charts of the homogeneous air tongues. He has been using "isentropic charts" for over a year, he said, with excellent practical results...
...Origin of the Purge. One evening late last winter, Harry Hopkins called the following men to his house in George town: PWAdministrator Harold Ickes, Assistant to the Attorney General Joseph Keenan, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, Assistant WPAdministrator David Niles, Presidential Secretary James Roosevelt, and two more : sometimes called "Washington Service Station,'' "The Twins of Evil," etc., but better identified as the Administration's unofficial legal firm, Corcoran & Cohen. These persons, with one or two more (see col. 2) constitute what in President Jackson's time was called the Kitchen Cabinet. No name more colorful than...
LAMBETH WALK (Duke Ellington; Brunswick). Theme song of the 1938 summer dance madness, doubtless played more interestingly than it ever was at its point of origin, London...
TIME credits me with the origin of the Rail Auto Travel Plan. Fact is, various ideas of coordinating automobile and railroad transportation have been suggested for many years but the New Haven Railroad is the first transportation company to devise a plan of this character. Credit should go to the New Haven and to all Hertz operators in its territory under the able leadership of R. S. Robie, Hertz man of Boston...