Word: representer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The salesmen represent themselves as offering a polite publicity service. They suggest that "our newspapers" want a biographical sketch and a good picture of the subject; that they will see that the family's name is frequently and favorably mentioned; that-by gentle implication- nothing unfavorable regarding any member...
Notorious malefactors do not command the attention of the American public because they have done evil, but because they represent values that catch the popular enthusiasm. Wealth has unquestionably been the reward of many such men; and wealth, whether in a Rockefeller, a Ford, or a Capone has gained the...
According to Professor Laski, Mr. Justice Holmes may be called a "legal pragmatist; legal doctrines and institutions, for him, are to be explained in terms of the convenience they represent." He is a realist. To quote Professor Laski again. "He has never spoken of law as the equivalent of justice...
The deficits included payments on the public debt required by law. Thus the net operating deficit this year (1932) would be the total deficit (2,122 millions) less the statutory sinking fund payment (412 millions) or 1,711 millions which would represent the increase in the public debt.
The senatorial campaign was very expensive. Perfumer Coty lost partly be cause, misjudging the people he wished to represent, he dined publicly in Ajaccio with a Corsican bandit. In 1929 came the Wall Street crash and Publisher Coty's divorce. His two papers, the conservative Figaro and blatant Ami...