Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garner to Roosevelt at Chicago, and being a Southerner, put him in line for the Roosevelt Cabinet. An assiduous politician but not a brilliant executive, 71-year-old Secretary Roper contributed to the New Deal more than comic relief for cynical journalists, more than platitudinous speeches. He performed the useful function of massaging the bumps on Business' head every time Franklin Roosevelt cracked down on it. The impressive-looking vibrator which he was allowed to use for this purpose was his Business Advisory & Planning Council, chairmanned first by Franklin Roosevelt's friend Gerard Swope of General Electric, later...
...shocking lapse of manners. To the London press the "banquet incident" loomed bigger than any far-off territorial dispute. But Mr. Chamberlain's own words at the banquet proved that no question of taste would affect the Prime Minister's appease-the-dictators policy. Avoiding the use of the word "appeasement," a term no longer very popular in England, Mr. Chamberlain said he would continue to make a "prolonged and determined effort to eradicate possible causes of war and to try out methods of personal contact and discussion." Dictatorships do not last forever, the Prime Minister hinted...
Since most radio programs use prepared scripts, radio performers need nothing so much as the ability to read aloud. But programs like General Foods Corp.'s We, the People, in which the audience participates, run into special script troubles: the program's cross section includes people with poor eyesight, some illiterates. Average for We, the People is one guest a week who cannot see well enough to read an ordinary script. Last week the docket included a man who could not see at all- blind Musician Leonard Burford. For Guest Burford the script was typed in Braille...
...York City's scholarly, bald-domed Deputy Mayor Henry Hastings Curran was asked to help in a drive against baldness. He replied: "Why not be bald? Nobody ever made a nickel out of his hair. We cannot sell it,* or use it, or rent it, or put it in a show window. . . . Blessings on thee, baldhead...
President William E. Levis of Owens-Illinois took the position that he was interested in making bottles and wished the whole patent muddle could be avoided. "A patent," said he, "is not a grant of right to use the thing, it is only a grant to exclude other people from using the same thing." Pressed by Senator William E. Borah to admit that Hartford-Empire in effect fixed milk bottle prices, Mr. Levis only admitted that certain companies, including his own, "led" prices...