Word: vitalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roost last week was His Majesty's new "Gold-Braid" Cabinet led by handle-bar-mustached Premier General Senjuro Hayashi who had whittled down the customary 13 Cabinet officers to eight, pocketing the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Education for himself. Premier Hayashi, moreover, had given every vital Cabinet job to a general or admiral, except that President Toyotaro Yuki of the Industrial Bank of Japan received the thankless post of Finance Minister, must somehow find the billions which Japan's fighting services demand...
Vronsky & Babin play more than properly. Their frighteningly fast passages in Rachmaninoff never sound muddled. Babin's arrangement of the Polovetzkian Dances from Borodin's Prince Igor is brilliant and vital...
...this is not to say that the Act as it stands is perfect, or that it is not to be changed", the administrator was swift to proclaim. But the most vital of all of the Chairman's avowals was his far-sighted prediction for the future. "It is a part of the intelligence to expect that we shall learn how to improve social security constantly, and that through the years the system will undergo definite and steady evolution...
President Roosevelt's plea for crop insurance comes as a pleasant indication that the long-heralded farm program is not an idle promise, and that something will at least be attempted before the next harvest period. Never has assistance to the farmer been so vital to the welfare of the whole nation as at the present time. With returning industrial activity and the mid-winter flood disasters combining to make many a farmer's prospect seem proportionately gloomier than that of his countrymen, some measure is inevitable, and the one suggested by the President appears logical and sound...
...such training will furnish a useful background of experience for anyone interested in industrial relations, whether as a capialist or as a devotee at the temple of labor. The actual technique of canvassing,--of buttonholing men on the street, ringing door bells, handing out information, collecting dues, and, most vital of all, of coming into direct contact with the laboring people as individuals and not as a commodity or a great unknown,--should give a new viewpoint to future Harvard industrialists. How the badgered workman may feel when a well-clad youth from the rich man's college starts dunning...