Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as the Labor Board can avoid facing the issue. One ounce of national collective bargaining, through the American Federation of Labor, is enough to upset the scales. The case against the Roosevelt myth has been drawn up by the employers, who show convincingly that they can no longer afford to make the concessions which the administration demands. It has also been presented by Mr. Harold Laski and Mr. John Strachey, who point out the same obvious fact. But the employers have nothing but a sterile and angry refusal; Messrs. Laski and Strachey can offer a solution. TERTIUS...
...aside from these facets of the problem, which can probably be met somehow, through not with the case expected by the scheme's proponents, there is a definite political issue. Can the Labor Party afford to set its attention on these minor material salients without a corresponding change in its psychology? For the danger is this, that a Socialist Party, as history has shown, exhibits a fatal tendency to regard these concessions which in a parasitical way it has sucked from the sick body of capitalism as ends in themselves and not simply as incidental to their larger goal...
...National government, who in their nascent proposal along these lines are said to have included a decree to prevent overcrowding in neighboring tenements--implying that ht maximum limit of inhabitants per square foot of rooming space will be made necessary by the flood of dispossessed tenants who cannot afford the rents of the model housing. This has been the experience of every major city which has ever tried slum-clearance on a significant scale...
...wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling captive to quick death by drowning. Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger (see cut, p. 32). Best bait is a fresh aspen limb fastened just behind the trap. Beavers live chiefly on bark, twigs, the roots of water plants...
...object of the dinner is to promote friendly relations between the rival staffs. Since the coaches never have a chance to get acquainted during games, this meeting will afford them an opportunity of meeting and discussing common problems. The officers of the Coaches Club are Eddle Farrell, Rene Percy, and Jack Carr...