Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be knocked out of WPA's $71,000,000 list of administrative costs & materials, talked of having the General Accounting Office audit all WPA expenditures in at least one sample past year). Another reason: when PWA builds something in his community a Congressman can point and say, "I got you that, folks." You can't point to a pile of WPA-raked leaves...
Next day came the military display. While 265 planes zoomed overhead, Herr Hitler obligingly showed his princely guests how lucky it is to be Germany's friend. He underlined his point with a two-and-one-half-hour military review, made princely eyes bug out with three new 25-ton tanks, mounting one 75-mm. gun, one 37-mm. gun, three machine guns. Carped critics: three-quarters of the parade was motorized but only 20% of the German Army is. Observers thought Prince Paul was less likely to quibble about percentages...
Professionals criticize the free lances for using popular stereotypes (the "robot" Germans, the "individualistic" French, the "cowardly wops," the "bemused" Russians). They point out that before the World War the German Imperial Army was drilled to the teeth, yet the German mechanical marvel did not fall apart before the attacks of the "individualistic" French and British. Always good military technicians, the Germans teach their men infiltration tactics, stress individualist action by small groups of soldiers, encourage initiative all through the ranks...
...Ogden Reid, super-clubwoman vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, hired her to write a column. It was to run on the same page as Lippmann's Today and Tomorrow, three times a week, and it was expected to present the woman's point of view toward such public matters as women could be expected to grapple with...
...Siegel side of the insurance question is considered dynamite by the major networks, but last week Prudential and Metropolitan, the biggest two insurance companies in the U. S., were on the big time air with their side of the story. Their main point: the company agent's functions are so ordered that the best interests of the policyholders must be the agent's, too. Prudential began a five-a-week non-insurance dramatic serial over CBS, called When a Girl Marries, which contents itself with simple commercial testaments to the agent's integrity...