Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...entire furnishing of his mind was the gift to him of his Jewish heritage. . . . Jesus was a Jew - in blood, in loyalty, in mental outlook, in his criticism of Jewry, in his positive message. . . . Why should not Judaism do much more than [celebrate Christmas]? Why should it not make a place for Jesus in its own faith ... a place fully consistent with the nobler ideals of the Jewish tradition. ... If the religion of Judaism is good for Jews it is also good for Gentiles. ... If it is not good for Gentiles, it is not the best religion for Jews...
...probably intended partly as an answer to those Catholics who still viewed Heywood Broun as an unreconstructed Red, who ought never to have been accepted by the Church. And they were undoubtedly voiced, by one of the nation's most influential Catholics, as the sincerest tribute he could make to a man who had sincerely been his friend...
Competitive bidding minimizes the banker's sense of responsibility and destroys his professional relationship with his client; it tends to cause overpricing of securities and high-pressure salesmanship of "shoddy goods" to unwary buyers; competing brokers, unsure who will get the order, tend to make superficial studies of securities' quality; competitive bidding, in the long run, would eliminate the small dealer, now supported by sharing on flotations...
Businessmen talking through their hats often make extravagant predictions for a new year. No hat prophecy, but a bareheaded appraisal of 1940's building prospects appears in the January ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. There are gathered the considered opinions of economists, several big statistical organizations, 130 bankers, contractors, city and FHA officials, realtors, architects, engineers, from 21 cities. Their composite conclusion: 1940 is likely to be the U. S. building industry's best year in a decade (damnation by faint praise), a $6,558,000,000 year, up only 4% from 1939 (1920-29 average...
Luckily for his book, Guiterman doesn't make many such plunges. He writes almost exclusively to offer reassurance (and sometimes succeeds in conveying it) that in a world in which Romans rhymes with abdomens, there must be room for play...