Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America glided sedately down ways slicked with 45,000 Ibs. of grease. Proudest man there was Chairman of the Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical gentlemen who tell us that our country has neither the background nor the aptitude that makes for success in maritime affairs, I have little sympathy. . . . The United States of America has a maritime tradition...
Acting on the assumption that all Freshmen are barbarians, and that only Harvard Seniors are gentlemen, old timers warned of probable rioting and wholesale property destruction in the tree-shaded quadrangle where Harvard life had centered for three centuries...
...These gentlemen, with others to be selected later, undoubtedly would head up the potent Resources Administration in wartime, through it would strictly control the production, financing, prices, labor of all U. S. industry. Their job in peace is to review the minutely detailed plans for industrial mobilization drawn up by the War & Navy Departments, bring to bear the imposing sum of their knowledge and experience to spot and correct any defects...
...dream: a gymnasium for Cue, where every male of his 80 employes would be compelled to take at least one hour's exercise every day. One of Cue's female employes describes the organization as "a casual kind of place, so friendly and full of gentlemen...
...Some gentlemen may rise in horror and say, 'Why, Mr. Lewis has made a personal attack on Mr. Garner.' Yes, I make a personal attack on Mr. Garner for what he is doing, because Garner's knife is searching for the quivering, pulsating heart of labor. And I am against...