Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition of these "aces," there are three "face cards" in each suit, representing the ace's assistants. In each suit there are also one activity card, two method cards and three tool cards. For example, in the Banker's suit, the professor is the knave, outranked by lawyer and the politician. The Banker's activity is control, and his methods are secrecy and bluff. Mr. Morey says it is a game of social significance. Profits go to the Fellowship of Man Foundation...
...WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...
...toward life and liberalism, that upperclassmen and graduates can only growl feebly when they read them. Like communism the word indifference has a kind of African mystery to it, as thought if analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained by Henry Adams, the Porcellian Club, or Samuel Eliot Morison's history. It is applied to the student so absorbed in his bio-chemistry that he cannot look at anyone and to the Freshmen too frightened...
...District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, the Roosevelt candidate set up to purge Senator George, attacks his adversary as a tool of Georgia's utility and railroad companies, a stooge of northern Republicans. Last week this last charge was made more awful when James W. Arnold. Republican National Committeeman from Georgia, urged all Georgia Republicans to jump into the Democratic primary for Senator George and "save this country." There is no Republican candidate for the Senate this year, and 36.942 Republicans (12% of the electorate) voted in Georgia...
Richard Whitney's Old Guard looked on him as an amiable tool for their campaign...