Word: steered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applied the same pragmatic principles to the arts that he had found effective in business: he had no use for failures, however interesting. Young John O'Shaughnessy. general handyman of the School, had enough motherwit and social presence to get along with Mr. Ganson and to steer a safe course among the shoals of Dorchester's provincial-artistic society. When Musician Arenkoff was appointed conductor of the Phil harmonic Orchestra, John was told off to help him get settled. This was a pleasant enough job, and when Arenkoffs wife Nina arrived, John adored her at sight. Nina...
...King comes curt, clear, complete newsmagazine TIME each week for perusal. Encountered up to your issue of even date were no knocks, no adverse criticism, no subtle insinuations regarding Naval personnel. Breaking this great, good record is the following: "Her job was to steer home 'good' girls looking for sailors, before they got into trouble...
...paper a Governor's conference looks important and imposing. Actually it is inconsequential. Its participants "debate their common problems," "exchange executive ideas," steer clear of concerted action on real public issues. Last week the Governors held their business sessions in the State Capitol at Sacramento and in the Supreme Court chamber in San Francisco. They pledged their support to Pres ident Roosevelt's recovery program and in return the President, an inveterate conferee when Governor of New York.* invited them all to Washington next winter to discuss such things as oil production and land conservation...
Notch No. 2. Because his Secretary of the Treasury is an industrialist and his Undersecretary, his Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and his Comptroller of the Currency are lawyers, President Roosevelt has long felt the lack of a first-rate banking brain to steer him through the technicalities of a managed currency. Last week he secured such a pilot in the person of Oliver Mitchell Wentworth...
...President of the U. S. For the second time Franklin Roosevelt was "reporting" to the country from the White House. Eight weeks prior when "the country was dying by inches" his first broadcast on the banking crisis had been a historic success. His second attempt to clear and steer the public mind on issues of state produced a popular reaction no less favorable. President Roosevelt's speech, simple and sympathetic, was more than a review of his two months in office, more than a recitation of the purposes of his Civilian Conservation Corps, his Tennessee Valley Plan, his mortgage...