Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ziff Co. was established twelve years ago by William Bernard Ziff, now 34. Starting with the Chicago Defender he built up a large clientele of Negro publications whose efforts to solicit national advertising are hampered by "Jim Crow" rules in some Southern office buildings, tacit prejudice elsewhere. Most Negro newspapers are too indigent to maintain traveling representatives. One of Adman Ziff's first tasks was to persuade Negro publishers to audit their circulations accurately. In some cases he paid for the auditing himself...
...more English novel?in the Kipling, sun-never-sets-on-it sense ? than Peking Picnic would be hard to imagine. Authoress Bridge puts her not always tacit low opinion of all foreigners in a sufficiently high light, repeats with religious fervor the Kipling creed of England über alles. Broad-minded if not exactly up-to-date, the judges of the $10,000 Atlantic Monthly Prize unanimously picked Peking Picnic out of 750 manuscripts submitted for the contest...
Candidate Lehman has the tacit support of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Wall Street has a kindly feeling toward him because his family controls the old banking firm of Lehman Bros. Republicans admit that he would be the hardest Democrat to beat...
Most ambitious air transport system in the U. S. is Pan American Airways. Between it and the major domestic airlines, all of which are Pan American shareholders, is a tacit agreement that Pan American shall operate outside the U. S. proper, that none of the other lines shall compete with it. In its imperialistic spread Pan American's horizons are limited only by international permission and good business. Already Pan American has a network of lines south from Miami and Texas, roping the Caribbean and South America. Few weeks ago Transamerican Airlines bowed itself out of the North Atlantic...
Although the official date for House application has been set for April 16, and there has been a tacit agreement among Masters that no new members will be definitely accepted before that time, a number of Freshmen have already been given definite room assignments. Certain Houses, by violating the agreement and assuring first applicants of particular rooms have attempted to secure an advantage in membership over other of the units...