Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This match, which is a biannual affair, is played for the Prentice Trophy which was donated by Bernon S. Prentice '05, Chairman of the United States Lawn Tennis Association and former captain and champion at Harvard...
...people were hogs the problem of relief would be as easy as dumping slops into a trough. But people are not hogs and hence relief is a very difficult, complex affair. What makes it even more so is the relatively small number of jobless who once made a living with their heads instead of their hands-white-collar folk who are too proud to repair streets, too sensitive to sit at home eating their hearts out on the dole. The relief administrator's problem is to find occupation for them which is socially useful, yet does not compete with...
...regulation. Upheld, therefore, was the trial court's decision that the Schechters had been guilty of unfair trade practices under the Poultry Code. But a majority of the Circuit Court ruled that the working conditions of employes in the Schechters' Brooklyn plants were no interstate affair and therefore none of NRA's business. In effect, the Court's ruling coincided with dozens of other Federal judicial opinions that the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution gives NRA no power to enforce locally its labor and wage provisions. If the Supreme Court sustains the Circuit Court...
...practice of sending German spies abroad to kidnap or murder Germans who have "opposed Hitler" (TIME, Feb. 4). The case of Berthold Jacob seemed to Swiss one kidnapping too many, and last week spunky little Switzerland made it a cause celebre. Thundered Swiss Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta: "The Jacob affair constitutes a serious violation of Swiss sovereignty capable of shaking the destiny of Switzerland...
...good accordion player as accordion players go. Then there are three young ladies who are lovely of look at, but not so delightful to hear. Unfortunately they can't dance, they sing. The chorus does a number to "Love and a Dime" which is a novel and very fetching affair. The young ladies prove that they really can dance, especially the blonde fourth from the right. She simply seethes with biological expressions...