Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel [in Washington] in the week beginning Feb. 10, 1947, in the suite of Senator Brewster, that the Senator told me in so many words that if I would agree to merge Trans World Airline [which Hughes controls by owning 46% of its stock] with Pan American and would go along with his community airline bill, there would be no further hearings in this matter...
Hughes went on to tell of "certain events" which followed a breakdown of discussions for a merger of his T.W.A. with Juan Trippe's Pan American. He said that the Senate subcommittee's assistant counsel, Francis Flanagan, bobbed up at Hughes's office and "started getting very tough about this investigation. ... It was quite apparent to me that this was the application of the screws...
...full senatorial committee. Speaking as chief stockholder of T.W.A., Hughes proclaimed (in a series of signed articles in the Hearst papers) that the real reason behind the investigation was Hughes's refusal to accept an offer of merger with Brewster's good friend Juan Trippe of Pan-American. In Washington, Brewster promptly offered to waive congressional immunity and take the stand. He piously referred newsmen to Nehemiah 6* for his answer to Hughes...
...tales trip the fantastic lightly, full of comic improbabilities which unite past & present, heaven & earth. They abound with pompous Englishmen on Italian holidays, Anglican curates who sport with pagan fauns, young ladies with good breeding and bad taste. But beneath their staid respectability lurks the irreverent demon of Pan, Greek god of nature...
...circles to take pot shots at Freudianism and psychoanalysis. To be sure, prominent psychoanalysts from the great Viennese master down have often invited censure by their messianic attitude, by their harsh and crude condemnation of certain things commonly held sacred, by their loose and extravagant vocabulary, and by their pan-sexualist allegories. However, eminent thinkers and practitioners, Catholics among them, have, after careful examination and trial, recognized substantial contributions to psychology and psychiatry made by the psychoanalytic school. Obviously, some effort towards rapprochement and synthesis is in order...