Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...anti-American is now the greatest of political assets in Mexico, and the false tradition of the martyrdom of Madero hence has great expediency. Actually, many well-informed Mexicans think that the assassination of Madero was not political. Madero had many personal enemies. For instance, only a few days before his death Madero had, in one of his maniacal frenzies, personally shot two members of his own staff, when they tried to persuade him to resign after the report was confirmed that General Blanquete, whose troops had been called into the city to aid Madero, was training his guns...
Smart little Harry Ferguson, builder and distributor of the Ford lightweight tractor (TIME, July 3, 1939), likes to think of his machines in terms of social progress. Last summer he visited England and his native Ireland. This week Inventor Ferguson put forth a new idea to help win the war for Britain...
...with the percentage jumped T. W. Henritze, divisional manager for potent Safeway Stores, Inc., second largest U. S. chain. Reading from a bristling statement he had prepared for just such a situation, Henritze gave his fellow members something to think about: "Safeway is emphatically against any increase in this markup. A higher markup goes beyond the sound purposes of the law and represents an attempt to use the law as an instrument to fix prices. . . . The Department of Justice already has issued warnings against combinations under any guise whatever taking advantage of the war crisis to raise prices to consumers...
...freewheeling literary classicism which once made many college-bred Americans think that Millay had come to join them carrying spring breezes in her heels and the Pantheon in her head...
However, of college men in the big three, Crimson escorts scored a decisive triumph. To the question "What do you think of Yale men," one of the girls voiced the opinion of the group with the commentary "Yaaah." Charlotte, had "seen too many Yale men in tennis shorts" to be taken in by their glamor...