Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 1940 coming up Franklin Roosevelt has every reason to want to be undisputed master of the Democratic Party. For, unless he is master of the Party, he cannot be sure that the Democratic National Convention will nominate a man of whom he approves (whether himself or another). Several times this year Congress has challenged that mastery and last week it was challenged once too often...
...ordered the story of his divorce played on Page Two, who decided his marriage to Mary King, editor of his woman's page, was worth only a Page Four position. Publisher Patterson's formula for success is to give the people what they want, but the reason it works so well on the News is that he knows the people's taste infinitely better than any other newspaper publisher. Since he got out of college he has studied in only one textbook: the People...
When Walt Mason was 48 he had good reason to fear his fate. Small-town newsman with roving feet, he had drunk his way through many a sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a batch of rhyming prose. Walt Mason's doggerel, couched in slang, hit the syndicates with a bang; rich, respected, worth his salt grew reformed Booze-hoister Walt...
...done with such material as the eggs of the sea squirt and of a little mollusc named Crepidula. But he got his start in science before extreme specialization was as fashionable as it is today. So he is something of a jack-of-all-biology. Perhaps for the same reason he has the kind of extra-level head which men who are not specialists sometimes have. No dodo, despite his amiable nature, he has a merry tongue which articulates scientific problems with what the contemporaries of his younger days called witticisms. His present contemporaries call them cracks...
Strapping Fred W. Meyenborg, president of the Merchant Tailors Society of the City of New York, last week sounded a Recovery note. He announced that businessmen will be in good physical shape to handle increased business, when it comes. Reason: Their average waist measure is smaller than...