Word: surest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university authorities because he was under U. S. indictment for passport fraud. When Yale undergraduates also invited him, urbane President Charles Seymour said he would not interfere. His reason (laid down two years ago in his inaugural address): "The London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum...
...Edgar Lee Masters had as great if not greater native talent; even Ben Hecht, whose desk was next to Sandburg's on the Chicago Daily News in the early '20s, seemed a more brilliant, sophisticated writer. Of them all, Sandburg, the immigrant's son, got the surest roothold in authentic U. S. tradition, and got it perhaps by the near accident of digging for the truth about Abraham Lincoln. "That son-of-a-gun Lincoln grows on you," he once told a reporter. Before he finished The Prairie Years, which carried the biography...
...chief gripe, however, is the ridicule that has been heaped upon a man who has the courage to speak his mind. This one fact is the surest sign that we are all headed for a moral disintegration...
...equipment. Should the New Deal, however, decide to fight Recession II by priming heavy industry instead of consumer purchasing power, it is likely to choose railroad equipment (either forming a corporation to rent equipment to tho roads or guaranteeing loans enabling them to buy it) as one of the surest, quickest ways to gain its end. The figure New Dealers like to quote as a "minimum" of new locomotives needed to modernize the U. S. rolling power plant is 500 new engines a year; at this rate, barely a dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that...
...cutting expenditures: "I sit in my office with a business man who thinks the surest way to produce customers is to balance the Federal budget at once. I say to him-'How?' Sometimes he says-'How should I know? That is your job.' Sometimes he says-'Cut the budget straight through 10% or 20%.' Then I take from my desk drawer a fat book and it is apparent at once that he never has seen or read the budget of the Government of the United States...