Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave military matters to military men, internal matters to the Administration's selections, and save my grudges for election day. I recommend the practice to others...
...pleasure driving should be eliminated and automobiles used only for essential business. He and his brainy colleagues, James Bryant Conant and Karl Taylor Compton, had also looked at the synthetic-rubber program finally gotten under way by WPB (TIME, July 20) and found it good. He was expected to recommend...
...prestige, wedges himself between two fourth-rate party hacks and tries to muscle into the gossip. There, an old horse, forever paretically nodding yes-yes-yes, is named Plebiscite. There, the Fascist party's local orator, Don Coriolano, speaks for that "moderate" faith in God which priests "widely recommend...
Meanwhile, the armed forces are allowing each university to recommend draft exemptions for their specialists as they see fit. Having failed to formulate specifications for such recommendations, the services have indirectly given rise to a situation in which some schools feel justified in asking deferments for almost all their students regardless of fields, while other universities, like Harvard, don't even request exemption for their technicians...
...example, there was a Midwestern newspaperman, now an Under Secretary of Agriculture, who went to the Institute to speak with obvious admiration of what he had seen in England; earnestly to recommend Britain's "great determination to maintain after the war the kind of equity in distribution which the war has forced." There was an Assistant Secretary of State who pointed out how the principle of Lend-Lease could serve a world commonwealth as it is now serving the United Nations...