Word: consultant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound of military wheels...
...easier to talk about the Apocalypse and to consult occult books than to admit that one is an abettor of disorder. . . . The Apocalypse is indulged as a fad now in order to avoid undertaking, in the face of the sickness of Europe, measures for public wellbeing. . . . Europe's bad conscience lends itself to playing up the Apocalypse. This is not what the Apocalypse is for . . .1 have no more reason to deny than I have to admit that we may have entered into those convulsions which, according to the Scriptures, precede the end of the intermediary period. What...
...have no desire whatever to interfere in your political opinions, but obviously, if you have no faith whatever in the principles for which the Yorkshire Post stands, your duty is to resign. . . . You must consult your conscience...
...Mexico's hoof-&-mouth epizootic. The dealers bought up 8,000 mules, signed contracts to buy 12,000 more. But when they went to Washington with their bids, the Department of Agriculture told them that it might not buy a single mule. It would first have to consult with Mexican officials over what it considered exorbitant prices. Cussing the delay, which would cost them 50? a mule a day for feed, most of the dealers went home to await further word...
...Pennsylvania's Dr. Gilson Colby Engel protested that many stomach cancer deaths are unnecessary. X rays and the gastroscope can detect all but 8% of early cancers, said he, but neither patients nor doctors understand the need for such examinations. The average stomach cancer victim does not consult a doctor until 15 to 16 months after his symptoms begin. Anyone who begins to feel weak and tired, to lose his appetite for meat and to have indigestion before or after eating would do well to be examined at once for stomach cancer...