Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duties would be: "Consolidating, coordinating and making more efficient and productive the emergency activities of the Government." He was to start by "conveying to the general public all factual information with reference to the various Governmental agencies." On a nation-wide scale his Council's representatives were to steer befuddled citizens through the fog of new Washington agencies to the particular bureau that could supply the relief needed. As a starter $10,000-per-year-man Walker hired for his headquarters assistant Eugene Sheldon Leggett, redheaded young Washington correspondent for the Detroit Free Press...
Keep on giving us the real truth in the news but steer clear of that doctrine of "prosperity for everyone forever." God give us more guts and fewer jelly fish...
...Order No. 1 of Acting Secretary Morgenthau, to the effect that hereafter all Treasury news must come from him or a single press relations expert. The order meant that newsmen could no longer gossip, even anonymously, with subordinate Treasury officials who for years had given them many a friendly steer through the complexities of fiscal affairs. Largely because these informal and informative contacts had lately resulted in Treasury news and views out of harmony with the President's monetary program Secretary Morgenthau clapped on his gag as a matter of uniform administrative policy...
...Japan's next war, according to the Tokyo correspondent of the London Daily Herald which scored a beat on the story last week, Japanese torpedoes of the new type will each contain a volunteer. He will steer the torpedo intelligently to its mark and magnificently blow up with it "as did the Japanese human bomb at Shanghai...
...crews from Bellport, L. I. and Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible to steer, Bellport drifted into a marker, received another disqualification, withdrew. Ruth Sears, who had finished second in the first race, found a puff on the last leg of the three-mile triangular course and won. Next day the breeze was brisk in the morning, light in the afternoon. Ruth Sears...