Word: wands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having waved over mine, shop and factory, the magic wand of the NRA was last week poised for its last big sweep, over the retail stores of the land. After public incantations which began in August and backstage sorcery continued all through September, the Retail Code was nearly ready for the President to approve and invoke...
...tied up closely to a long-term program [reduction of corn and hog production next year]. . . . The after-effects otherwise would be disastrous to hog prices for the 1934-35 season and for some time thereafter. . . . The real solution must come from the farmers themselves. No fairy wand can be waved over agricultural markets so that they will receive better prices...
Much of the enthusiasm for McKee arose last year when he replaced Walker after the latter's resignation. Like a slightly bulbous fairly god-mother, he brandished the wand of reform over startled New Yorkers. His first economy measures took the city by surprise; though it was obvious to many that these moves were dictated by the city's banker-creditors, McKee was resoundingly lauded from press and pulpit. Taking advantage of his sudden popularity he issued scores of orders, closing burlesque shows here, and dictating now traffic rules there. With the coming of the fall elections McKee was even...
...undertakes. The ideal solution of the problem is the construction of an adequate University hospital, staffed with a resident physician, and provided with a sufficient number of private rooms and proper facilities for the care of contagion. At present such a building is but a dream awaiting the wand of another Harkness to make it a reality. Until that wand is applied, Stillman should be restored to its original status, and arrangements made with Cambridge General Hospital, or the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for the care of operative cases and other serious illness...
...Chrysler exhibit: 35 salesmen and seven girls dressed in creamy flannels; rug of the same color and all the cars shaded to match; a huge merry-go-round said to have cost $20.000 displaying Chrysler parts and a chassis, presided over by a Sousa-like gentleman with a wand...