Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt's ounce was followed by a pound from Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson, in prose almost illegally lucid. Mr. Jackson argued that the imposing of uniform procedure on all agencies would act "as if we should average the sizes of all men's feet and then buy shoes of only that one size for the Army." Under the bill, any citizen substantially affected and displeased by a ruling "has everything to gain and nothing to lose" by suing in the D. C. Court of Appeals. If he loses, he may wait until the rule is again involved...
...Schafer needed a good quotation. That very day Mrs. Anna Weber, of Queens, was getting a judgment against him for $2,500 she said she had lent him and which he had never repaid. Next day a line of ladies began to march into the Attorney General's office with circumstantial stories of how "the money comes...
According to the Attorney General's office, Mrs. Ann Tomlinson, formerly of Monte Carlo, testified that she had contributed three truckloads of antique furniture, $10,000, and $7.50 a day for a private room at Peace Haven during the summer. (Dormitory accommodations: $2 a day). Investigators said they learned that one woman had lost two rings valued at $5,000 at the retreat, and when she told Mr. Schafer about it he replied: "Nothing is lost in the infinite. You can think them back in your experience...
William S. Knudsen is grey-haired, bulky, ruddy. Walter Philip Reuther is rufous, pint-sized, pale. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther first knocked their heads together when one worked for General Motors, the other for the C. I. O. autoworkers' union. Frazzled after a tough bout with a union committee in Detroit, G. M.'s Knudsen once glared at Walter Reuther, barked...
Walter Reuther did not take the angry compliment as an offer, stayed with his union. Now he directs its activities in General Motors plants. Last fortnight he bounced into Washington with an idea for sale-free. He wanted to give it away to Defense Commissioner Knudsen, President Roosevelt, anybody else who would use it. His idea: let the U. S. Government take the automobile industry in hand, mobilize its vast capacity for aircraft manufacture...