Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downright man and snorted at his opponents, his fighting courage was deeply respected, his grim rectitude unquestioned. He was above demagoguery. Tom Heflin in his time and Huey Long in his, both inspired Joe Robinson's contempt and he voiced it so frankly that he made them his particular enemies. He had two virtues prized above all others by professional politicians: his word was good and his loyalty unswerving. In 1928 he was made the Democratic nominee for Vice President to play a Southern conservative obligato to Al Smith's metropolitan liberalism, but four years later, fate having...
There is no good reason why the President of the U. S. should travel to far parts of the U. S. to bury his followers, but politicians are particular about funerals. Moreover, President Roosevelt had traveled far to bury Speakers Rainey and Byrns, Secretary of War Dern and his own personal Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. His decision a few hours after loyal Joe Robinson's death not to go to the funeral at Little Rock was not liked by a good many Congressmen. They said nothing publicly, but when he stepped out before the funeral with his "message...
Charles Hoyt March, 66, a Hoover appointee reappointed by President Roosevelt; handsome, heavyset, a onetime lawyer whose particular hate is monopolies. His pet case at the moment is the Cement Institute (TIME, July 12). Colonel March's FTC specialty is the legal...
...sell anything," continued Judge Barnes, relating how Mr. Skinner tampered with the brewmaster's formulas and watered the beer 80%. "To his surprise and the disaster of the debtor [Prima] it was found that beer drinkers want not only color and foam but that they also want a particular kind of disagreeable taste...
...shortest million-unit period in the company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director Harold H. Neff of the SEC's Division of Forms & Regulations last week made public a complete lesson in brevity. Declaring that prospectuses for security issues were too long and gummed up with unnecessary legal verbiage, Mr. Neff cited a utility company's prospectus...