Word: mcdonaldization
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...worked out in final form shortly but had as yet no special name. Nevertheless, reporters knew that before the President's press conference a lean, iron-grey, mustachioed gentleman had attended an earlier session with the President, Secretary Morgenthau and Under-Secretary of the Treasury Hanes, Administrator Stewart McDonald and other officials of FHA. After the President's conference, so many reporters telephoned the iron-grey gentleman that his boss, Stewart McDonald, called in the press next day, and the Federal career of Gerard Barnes Lambert, $1-a-year man in Washington since May, had its newspaper debut...
Last spring Administrator Stewart McDonald of FHA, longtime St. Louis friend of Jerry Lambert, telephoned him at his estate in Princeton, N. J., asked him down to Washington to help on Housing. Inventor Lambert knew nothing of that subject but went anyway, studied under FHA's experts. Within three months he had invented something and was building it at Princeton with $30,000 of his own money...
...Stewart McDonald, the Administrator of Federal Housing . . . has just returned from London and Paris, where he turned his Scotch soul loose on tweeds. . . . His new little 'café au lait' number is becoming, and brings out the fine, lovely quality of his camellia-like complexion. . . . I'm sending 'Eve's Apple' to certain people, so, Stewie, when you get home tonight, you'll find it waiting...
...profit on that part of their crop consumed in the U.S., the balance to be sold abroad at world prices. At Fort Worth Henry Wallace told cotton farmers that domestic allotment would be a "road to disaster." Bristling on the platform was Texas' Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald, a champion of domestic allotment. As soon as the Secretary left town, Commissioner McDonald announced he would organize Statewide opposition to AAA and all its works. Sniffed Mr. McDonald: "The officials of his [Wallace's] organization are merely holding their AAA jobs to keep from leaning on WPA shovels...
Coach: James McDonald...