Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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After three years' able service Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow last week prepared to leave Mexico City for New Jersey to begin his Republican campaign for the Senate. He broadcast a farewell to Mexico in which he gave his recipe for successful diplomacy. The Morrow method: 1) look for the likenesses, not the differences, between men; 2) be meek and humble like the publican, not proud and exalted like the pharisee; 3) remember a foreign country also has rights to be defended by its representatives. Declared Ambassador Morrow...
...says he has a job promised him, he is automatically barred by the law's "contract labor" restriction.) Application of the "public charge" clause to Mexican immigration has already reduced alien labor entries from that country from an annual average of 56,747 to 6,280. The same method has been used to cut less drastically Canadian labor immigration. ¶ To a $3,000,000 hurricane relief loan sought by Santo Domingo in the U. S. President Hoover had no objection...
Helpfully in Buenos Aires, Rear Admiral Abel Renard of the Argentine Navy observed to correspondents: "Woodrow Wilson believed all revolutionary movements were not legal, but I can assure you that in some cases?notably our own revolution?it is the only possible method of establishing a legal regime...
Oration over, the dummies were lynched, placed in caskets, buried with regular rites, while the 1,000 businessmen cheered this notable method of doing away with depression...
...Haven's 258 barber shops are in "what may be properly termed a high state of perfection."?Health Officer John Levi Rice, in a report last fortnight. Dr. Rice has devised a shrewd method of harrying slovenly barbers. He grades their shops as to cleanliness and sanitation, publishes the grades with names. No New Haven barber shop merits grade 100 but: 138 are between 90 and 98; 104 between 80 and 88; only 16 between 70 and 80. When a shop falls below 70, it is closed...