Word: treads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place two men in his sub-cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt last week had to tread on some good New Deal toes: 1) To the pain of trust-hating disciples of Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, able young lawyer but no reckless reformer, became Assistant Attorney General, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions to bolster Attorney General Cummings' shaky legal staff. 2) To the suppressed displeasure of Secretary Ickes, Charles West, Presidential contact-man with Congress, was made Undersecretary of the Interior...
...Loening, B. Sc., M. A., C. E., F. R. Ae. S., F. I. A. S. is at 47 a curiously youngish man to be one of aviation's pioneers. A swank, dapper socialite who still flies often and badly, he is rich, independent, honest, can well afford to tread on many a famed toe, call many a spade by its rightful name. Some typical Loening evaluations...
...Dean Hanford will relieve and delight all the undergraduates, who have long suffered intellectual cramps from the rigidity of the old mold into which they have hitherto been poured. The new distribution requirement, which allows any four courses outside one's field of concentration, frees the student to tread more pleasant paths where his own in interests lead him, but opens the way to a new danger. For any abuse of the plan leading to further narrowing of the academic itinerary will now permit the erring student to stew in the juice of his own bad judgement...
Despite a thorough-going and intensive research into the arithmetic side of the Teutonic Plague today, no change could be discovered in the total number of victims. Five cured men left the portals of Stillman with blithesome tread. Five others, blushing a suspicious pink in neatly distributed spots, took their places. The result was a standstill...
...that the venerable Borah has introduced a resolution into the Senate demanding an exhaustive senatorial investigation of the persecution of religion in Mexico, it appears that America has again committed a diplomatic blunder by not observing whose toes are being awkwardly tread upon. This characteristic American attitude of interference in Latin-American affairs, many foreign observers agree, is another step in the direction of making us the most cordially hated nation on earth...