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Word: accomplishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Avowed purpose of the Act is to see that workers who wish to bargain collectively with their employer may do so through a union of their own choosing. To accomplish this, the Act: 1) forbids employers to interfere in any way with the workers' choice, even if the interference benefits a supposedly bona fide union, and 2) gives the administrators discretion to make sure that when a group of workers wants a union, they get the one preferred by a majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...revolutionary method, Franklin Roosevelt proposed to build a "spillway" into the world market, in which the U. S. "fair share" of cotton trade would be 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 bales a year and in which its 1939 share will be about 3,500,000 bales. To accomplish that he suggested three definite steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Big Dump | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...great majority of people appear to believe*. . . that business confidence would be restored if the Budget were balanced and that the spurt of economic activity that would result would accomplish our common aim of recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Double Dare | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...plan is designed to accomplish two purposes: to reduce the number of men who go through all or most of their college life outside the House system; and to increase the total number of undergraduates receiving the benefits of the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housemasters Vote To Adopt Associate Membership Plan For Out-of-House Men | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

Students, working with faculty advisers will presumably accomplish these ends. Some will author scripts aided by members of the English Department, others will study microphone technique, the mysteries of auditory perspective, the effects of studio acoustics, and the reactions to propaganda. For the present, a majority of the programs will be recorded, although certain specific presentations will be heard over WIXAL. This is the group's avowed intent--to combine the theoretical with the practical. By coordinating the newer theories of auditory perception with actual practice, the Workshop may well take the helm in radio's future progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOP TALK | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

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