Word: gist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Young as a "public servant," Dr. Butler said: "Whether a public servant receives office or not is accidental, and if that public servant does assume office by accident, it is as apt as not to reduce a great deal of the public servant's public service." Though the gist of Mr. Young's speech had to do with international War debts and leniency of creditor to debtor in hard times (see p. 16), it contained undertones such as might be found in the words of any presidential possibility. Excerpts: "We need to know more of the world...
...lofty New York Times, not a client of United Press, was apparently guilty of caginess and poor sportsmanship. Two days late it printed a story from its Tokyo correspondent stating that the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun (U. P. client) was carrying an interview with Stalin. It then repeated the gist of the interview which was, of course, United Pressman Lyons'. A few days later Times Correspondent Duranty got his interview with Stalin. Certainly by that time the Times was well aware of the U. P. "heat." Yet the Duranty story referred only to "Japanese correspondents" as recent interviewers...
...Here Brahman Moonje described minutely atrocious methods employed by the police of British India when dispersing crowds of non-violent Gandhite demonstrators for independence. News editors throughout the U. S. unanimously suppressed these details as unprintable. The gist: after tearing off Gandhite loin cloths, the police perpetrated upon the exposed parts painful indignities...
...real gist of the whole matter", he continued, "is this: The present economic situation in the United States and throughout most of the world is a normal reaction to the strong business development from 1922 to 1928. During this time conditions were unusually good and as this too great prosperity could not last, a new level had to be found. So far we have not attained that level...
Mail Order Cut. To his 10,000,000 customers President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery, Ward & Co. wrote 10,000,000 letters last week. Gist of the letters was that prices had been cut drastically, time payments would henceforth be allowed on purchases of $25 and over. At once President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co. told reporters: "Prices in the new autumn catalog of Sears, Roebuck & Co. are the lowest in ten years." Cause: suggested in President Everitt's statement that "we are placing orders for millions of dollars' worth of merchandise at the new low commodity levels...