Word: personality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newfoundland, writing bread-&-butter letters to their U. S. hosts. King George, of course, addressed President Franklin in person...
...last week with its plans to send Chief of the Central European Bureau of the Foreign Office William Strang to carry its latest message to Moscow in the tiresome seesawing of Anglo-Soviet bargaining. Though Russian vanity was nicked because Prime Minister Chamberlain did not visit the Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British charge d'affaires in Moscow during the difficult spy trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers) thought...
...bring about equilibrium, whether it tends to destroy privilege, whether it subjects itself to reason and measures itself by criteria-the chief criterion in the economic field being the release of productive energy. My program, which is the program of a journalist, and not the program of a person with any political ambitions whatsoever, is to try to make more people think along these lines...
...know it. . . . Forced to pay hard-earned pennies for something that can be bought for half. . . . I want to help you stop being a victim of this racket. . . . If anyone tells you not to come and see me and learn how I can save you money, then that person is protecting his own interests. He is in cahoots with the billion-dollar insurance companies...
...chief bang-bang-bang artist is an insurance counselor named Donald Besdine, who broadcasts 55 times a week, in person and by transcription. But the arch radio-counselor of them all (in Manhattan there are some half dozen on the air) is a cagey, kinky-haired, 38-year-old ex-insurance man named Morris H. Siegel (M. H. to his 52 aides). Into M. H.'s Manhattan and Boston offices (Policyholders' Advisory Council) last year ventured some 40,000 persons with real or fancied insurance problems. Each of them paid $1 for the interview. Some 8,000 became...