Word: responding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month in Manhattan in answer to the uneasy rumbling voiced by businessmen at a Congress of American Industry, Donald Richberg taunted: "Unless the businessmen of America have been shell-shocked into nervous impotence, there must come a time when they will respond to the fighting spirit of that old admiral who signaled, 'Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead...
Since 1925 there has been mailed to all Harvard men living in Cambridge a set of Christmas seals accompanied by a plea to keep the seals and return a dollar. That Harvard men respond nobly to such demands is shown by the fact that in 1930, the record year, 2300 Crimson dollars were solicited away. From this peak contributions have declined slowly every year to the 1933 figure of $1689.81, a sum collected from 1713 students...
...Unless the businessmen of America have been shell-shocked into nervous impotence," cracked back Mr. Richberg, "there must come a time when they will respond to the fighting spirit of that old admiral who signaled: 'Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead...
...Roosevelt has pursued a policy so radical in its implications that it has antagonized the leading business interests of the country and has precluded cooperation between Washington and Wall Street. In this mutual antipathy and distrust, many economists have found a leading cause of the failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible to understand the opposition of sincere labor leaders...
...such pictures as King Kong Hollywood has devised automatons capable of more complex movements than Alpha, but never one that responded to the human voice. Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot...