Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacancy arises for a judge's position. The district leader gets a chance to recommend a man for the position at $25,000 per year for 14 years. If he is a Democrat here or a Republican in Philadelphia he is sure of reelection, so he practically has the position until he retires for age. If somebody offered you a thing like that, would you just say 'Thank you' and not offer that person a present? Would you really be such a rotter...
What these manufacturers and lawyers wanted most was embodied in a proposal to the Democratic party by its chairman. John Jacob Raskob, at last month's Washington meeting (TIME, March 16): "To free business from unnecessary handicaps. I recommend that the Federal Trade Commission be empowered to hold public hearings whenever leaders in industry desire to present reasons why certain combinations are desirable and necessary. If facts developed indicate that a given combination is not inimical to public interest and does not violate the spirit of the Sherman law, then the Federal Trade Commission should be empowered to issue...
Discussing the colored "host-coats" which Manhattan tailors currently recommend for evening wear by gentlemen who are receiving guests at home, Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane wrote: "They allow the eaters and drinkers at the party to pick out the man who is paying the bills and prevent mistaking him for the butler. The latter advantage is not important, because the butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concentrated intelligence, and is nearly always sober." Mr. Brisbane then drew a line under this sally and began anew: "Herbert [Bayard] Swope had this 'host-coat' idea long...
...dismissed by recalling that the now traditional subjects had themselves to fight for recognition. It was the question of method or approach to the expounding of these subjects which seemed to him of importance. The project was the method which out of several alternatives, seemed to have most to recommend...
...those who, while young, were dragged kicking and screaming past the Monkey House, and now spend their moments of adult leisure in front of Abercromble and Fitch show-cases, we recommend "Trader Horn", now showing at the Majestic Theater, as an effective tonic. The latest Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer "miracle picture", filmed in the heart of Darkest Africa at the risk of life and bank account, includes superb sound studies of savage men and beasts, who have entered into the spirit of the thing with a gusto which must at times have embarrassed the camera...