Word: label
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian began new 'negotiations to get the Wright plane back in the U. S. He would let Orville Wright write his own label if only the Museum might have the ship. For mediator of the old quarrel Dr. Abbot proposed Colonel Lindbergh, whose Spirit of St. Louis hangs permanently at the Smithsonian...
That nudist picture was a hell of a thing to label Medical...
...administration. But friction in the Roosevelt Administration is apt to be peculiarly significant because most of it comes from basic differences between those who are quite definitely not Socialists and those who, for most practical purposes, are. The near-Socialists are led by handsome Rex Tugwell who wants honest labeling written into the food codes and has for the same purpose drafted a food & drugs bill which last week was misbranded in Congressional hearings as the "Copeland Bill." Their strategy is to get as much done as possible under the guise of "Liberalism," to avoid the honest label of socialism...
...Brooklyn Abraham & Straus was selling Johnny Walker Black Label at $5 a fifth...
...continuity and courage that they demand. The emergency student employment, for example, has tended to become more literal minded than is necessary. Some of the jobs which have burgeoned under its hand, such as the museum bone dusting, have only a nominal utility; others, such as the library label sticking, occupy so much time as to militate against the fact that Harvard is, after all, a college, and that its student body had best conserve their energies to the acquisition of knowledge. The emergency employment appropriation could be diverted to gifts and loans to needy applicants after the really useful...