Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago, perturbed because engineers could not get jobs when they got their degrees, Mr. Murphy began a study of U. S. universities to see what could be done about founding a school that would give young engineers a better chance to find work. He was helped by General Motors' Research Director Charles Kettering and University of Cincinnati's Dean Herman Schneider, originator of a "cooperative" plan of engineering study...
Last week Dr. Jerger journeyed to Washington to see how his case would look to Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, he eased his mind: "Mark Twain told me that this was a land of free speech and liberty. Well, so it is, but Dr. Fishbein [Morris Fishbein, A. M. A. spokesman and Journal editor] is a dictator, a Hitler. I believe in organized medicine. Socialization is fatal. But the trouble here is too much concentrated power, power that will not stand for criticism. So I am going down to Washington and see what can be done...
...usual when the golden tide laps high on U. S. shores, reporters went to see Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. As usual, he pooh-poohed the idea of inflation. But though he said the gold was not affecting U. S. economy, it was amply clear that the continued European crisis was. Markets were nervous. Businessmen cut their buying for the future so low that three new indexes of inventories published by the National Industrial Conference Board touched the lowest point since May 1937. Most cheerful fact of the week (to businessmen): the sales ratio of twin beds to double beds...
...article on Government bonds took issue with various policies of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., concluded by asking whether they were due to "obstinacy, stupidity, or sheer ill advice." Secretary Morgenthau all but ordered the American Banker to send the unknown columnist, one S. F. Porter, to see him in Washington. The magazine refused in a vague letter from which all pronouns were conspicuously absent...
...treating him with awed deference. Rachel's eyes glinted with admiration. Antoine had learned what being a great doctor meant. But sweating, dirty, stupefied with weariness, Antoine was only conscious of his overwhelming desire for Rachel, whom he had never seen before and did not expect to see again...