Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Postmaster General and his appointive aids have much to learn. Career men in the Department would understand perfectly what was meant if a report came in saying: "The Oscaloosa graveyard shift pulled three nixies in a Mother Hubbard." But First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett might have to scratch his head over such a message. In any case, there is no reason why U. S. postmasters should not use everyday language. So last week First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett instructed his subordinates to omit "technical" terms from their reports...
...defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman, a tailor. They settled themselves in their box and prepared to try to understand, weigh, decide...
...well understand your keen interest in this most marvelous invention with its great possibilities. Those of us who were pioneers will soon be forced to turn the reins of radio over to you boys, and we want you to be strong and healthy, as the burden will undoubtedly increase as new avenues for radio are opened up by you and your colleagues. "This is a marvelous field for the American boy, and such enthusiasm as you have displayed should as a rule be commended rather than discouraged, but in order to develop into a big, strong, healthy boy you must...
...American people see and understand. Imperturbed, they move majestically forward in the consciousness that they are making their contribution in common with our sister nations to the progress of humanity." Another Pittsburgher of the Cabinet,* Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, accompanied President Coolidge back to Washington...
...cover felons with guns, when to vise blackjacks, where to hit. He influenced, the city to enlarge the police force, insisted that new men be carefully taught the rudiments he had learned himself. Then he had a falling out. Rumors were that Mr. McLaughlin could not understand why the law against gambling dens was not valid in all parts of the city. Clarence H. Mackay offered him a position in the Postal Telegraph & Cable Companies as executive vice president. This, too, was a strange job for a banker. But he accepted. The company would pay him $75,000 a year...