Word: directives
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...align agricultural policy with the defense program: Chester Davis, 52, grey, astute member of the Federal Reserve Board. To direct price stabilization in raw materials: terrible-tempered, fat, prophetic Leon Henderson, 45, member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. To advise on consumer protection: short, dynamic Harriet Elliott, 56, dean of women, University of North Carolina's Woman's College...
...direct procurement through the Treasury: Donald Marr Nelson, 51, whose spectacles and rabbity air mask tremendous keenness and big-league ability. Mr. Nelson, executive vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., will be the Government's purchasing agent, will be the knuckles and fist of the entire coordinating committee. To organize the Government invasion of industry, by aligning the 240-odd Federal bureaus with the committee's efforts: William H. McReynolds, 61, dry, withery, counsel-keeping White House assistant who knows better than any living man the labyrinthine network of agencies within the Government...
...montor, "He has a right to his opinion, of course, as an American citizen. But he has no more right to impress his opinions on the student body, or any part of it, and indeed, not as much, as the students have to voice their views by the most direct, orderly and effective method at their command...
...Meyer never adhered to any one school of psychiatry. Instead, he wove together the fruitful contributions of biology, physiology, psychology, neurology into a simple, practical, humane science. His method of treatment was clear and direct: he would talk things over with a patient, work out the history of his illness, outline a program of education based on a stable, comforting daily routine and good hard work...
...grasp the situation and circumstances of a story as upon his ability to manipulate a pencil. On the other hand, because of the necessary limits which are imposed upon the operations of an artist who is working with an article or an editorial, both Holabird and Bishop must be direct rather than subtle. Only in rare cases can the illustrator be called his own master...