Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar yet as opposite as the poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics...
...Nelson '31, who has given student instruction in the past at Tufts College and the Young Mens Christian Union, is conducting a 4 o'clock class on parallel bars, the horse and other heavy apparatus. For undergraduates who like music with their exercise, there is a 5 o'clock class in free arm drills which is conducted to the rhythm of popular selections...
Never unduly optimistic, British politicians of all three parties seemed to feel that the conference is bound to fail. From the jail in which St. Gandhi sits reports issued recently that he will try to set up in India a "parallel government." If this outlandish scheme is tried, self-appointed Gandhites will try to duplicate all the functions of the Government of India. They already have their own "police" who try and are frequently permitted to keep order at Gandhite mass demonstrations when the regular police find themselves swamped by numbers...
...Green's career in many ways is a parallel of that of James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. The former Pittsburgh from puddler is an outstanding example of a man who has risen from the ranks to a position of authority, while Green worked his way up from the Ohio mines to his present position at the head of what is perhaps the greatest labor organization in the world...
During the past decade there has been one trend in U. S. banking more pronounced than all others combined: the trend to merge, to branch, to group, all of which is essentially one trend, and all of which is exactly and naturally parallel to the developments in U. S. industry, commerce, society (FORTUNE, February). But Federal laws have opposed this trend and so, verbally...