Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neutrality which he had. He busily divided its enforcement between Treasury, Army & Navy and other departments (see p. 22). Attorney General Frank Murphy for the newsreels spoke tensely of spies and of every patriot's duty. Federal legalites searched the Constitution and the statutes for special powers...
...months he built ships for Bethlehem Steel and for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt. For two years, nine months he was president of the Film Booking Offices of America, for five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special counsel to First National Pictures, for twelve weeks reorganizer of RCA, for 74 days special adviser to Paramount Pictures. Wherever he was, he was also Joe Kennedy, the Wall Street speculator, who once said: "Anyone can lose his shirt in Wall Street if he has sufficient capital and inside information...
When modern nations go to war, they take their scientists with them. The technique of atom-splitting, for example, is not yet a part of military technology, but physicists who can split atoms have a bundle of special knowledge and special tricks with apparatus which military and naval technologists can use. From both London and Paris last week scientific laboratories were being moved to hideouts in the country. There was much secrecy about which scientists would do what, but the liaison between scientists and war was clear...
...neither common peace nor common understanding." Difficulty in the way of a common language is that chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy and dozens of other sciences and subdivisions each need a battery of precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have to be a mon ster vocabulary requiring a lifetime to master. Dr. Neurath feels that this Tower of Babel can be overstepped by developing a common grammar of science-a unified manner of scientific exposition-so that one savant can understand another if he looks...
...Chairman Jerome Frank's suggestion for a brokerage bank for customers' cash and free securities, a special Stock Exchange Board turned thumbs down. Its alternative: a 14-point program for completion of the Exchange's extensive self-policing policy...