Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion the word 'conductor' used in the English language for the leader of an orchestra is ridiculous. It ought to disappear from the vocabulary. The Italians speak of direttore, the Germans say diligent, which has the same root. The French say chef d'orchestre, which sounds also rather dignified...
...newspapers of seven big U. S. cities, written by Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co. He posed the question, "A Dollar For Dole-Or An Hour Of Work?", a question looming larger & larger before the country as the convening of Congress approaches. Mr. Macauley found the root of Depression in the unemployed dollar, "the dollar that is afraid to venture forth. . . . When the slacker dollar goes to work, men will go to work and not before...
...State in the last quarter century to go traveling out of the U. S. For the first 117 years of the country's history Secretaries of State stayed at home, conducted all foreign negotiations from the nation's capital. First to break this tradition was Elihu Root who attended a Pan-American Conference at Rio de Janeiro in 1906. Philander Chase Knox six years later toured Central and South America to soothe Latin suspicions of "dollar diplomacy." Robert Lansing attended the Paris peace conference in 1919, Charles Evans...
...Gandhi has always said that the grinding poverty of India's half-starved masses is the root-evil of the whole Indian question. Last week the Royal Commission reported that "stark poverty" is the "major reason" for the Indian laborer's "comparative inefficiency...
Some persons might infer from this statement that the Fiduciary Trust Co. will entrust all legal business of estates and trusts under its care to Root, Clark & Buckner. On the contrary, the policy of the trust company, where circumstances permit, is to employ a client's own attorney in the administration of his estate or trusts...