Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neat dresser. His addresses, delivered in falsetto, are usually admonitory, pedagogical. When his party was in power, he used to wear a wide political smile. Now an annoyed frown is usually to be seen behind his pince nez. His lack of humor makes him a perennial target for opposition wags. No one questions his sincerity and within his own ranks he is respected for his devotion to his party. He is a devout Methodist, a 33rd Degree Mason, and the author of fresh-water textbooks on history, physiology, politics, civics. Outside Congress: His wife, Eva C. Thomas, died...
Though generalizations often miss the mark, most of Brooks's charge gets home on this target: "Our thinking class quickly reaches middle age, and, after a somewhat prolonged period during which it seems to be incapable of assimilating any fresh experiences, it begins to decay. The rest of our people meanwhile never even grow up. For if our old men of thought come to a standstill at middle age, our old men of action, as one sees them in offices, in the streets, in public positions, everywhere! are typically not old men at all but old boys. . . . In short...
...Boston Navy Yard on the destroyer Manley June 20 for the annual training cruise in company with the ships of the Yale and Georgia Tech units. The unit will stop over at New London for the boat race June 22, proceed to southern waters for ship handling and target practice exercise and return to Boston July...
...Target Tugwell. Personal target for most of the publishers' hard words and harder feelings was Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell whom President Roosevelt last week stepped up to be Undersecretary of Agriculture as a public exhibit of faith in him (see p. 14). "There seems to be a clearly defined belief on the part of many administration officials," warned Lincoln B. Palmer, general manager of A. N. P. A., "that advertising is a social and economic waste, that it should be included as a marketing cost; that even harmless trade claims should be prohibited; and that all advertisements should...
...short for proper preparation, was given the nation's airmail to fly. A secondary cause was the charge, pooh-poohed by the Administration but still repeated by many onlookers, that the blow was struck unfairly, before hearing all the defendants' stories, and struck at the wrong target. If airmail carriers had played a crooked game with President Hoover's Postmaster General Brown, they had only followed rules laid down by him as the umpire. It seemed fair enough to change the game's rules, not fair to knock out the obedient players. The wage of connivance...