Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capone should prove to have been connected with the kidnapping of the baby, or if he should prove able to find him, the case will be without parallel in history. But though this is the most curious aspect of the situation, it is by no means the most important. The possibility that Capone should have arranged such a colossal and ingenious scheme and the probability, made clearer since the appeal to Bitz and Spitale, that special concessions and even release will be given Capone, are powerful challenges to complacent Americanism. They are indictments of the government of the United States...
...surprising aspect of the six-hour day is that from it concrete advantages accrue to both employer and employee. W. K. Kellogg has used the plan in his plant at Battle Creek since December, 1930, and he has made some startling discoveries concerning its use in mechanical factories. Machinery designed to turn out 165 pieces per minute is working at a 208 per minute rate. Wages are not reduced, but overhead is appreciably cut. Yet dividends pour forth as before. The secret is that the shorter shift is easier to handle, needs no lunch-hours and no replacements during lunch...
...been conducted by the Communists. They demand more than his freedom--for he has refused a parole--; what they want is an unconditional pardon. Mooney's release is now a demand of the class war, and his captivity is another objection to the capitalist system. It is this aspect of the question that bears an obvious analogy to the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
...would stop all further bank failures. Wall Street, as indicated by the stock rise, looked upon it as currency inflation which might turn the tide. Most anxious bankers hailed it as the "most constructive step" yet taken in the Depression. Conservative Republican Senators, shying away from its inflationary aspect, played down the printing press idea for political reasons, guessed that the Reserve Board might after all have no occasion actually to expand the currency...
...supposed attitude of some American minds in Porto Rico should have become public document and taken literally by any one. Of course nothing in the document was ever in-tended to mean other than opposite of what was stated. Nevertheless, if slightest seriousness is really attached to any aspect of this subject I will be glad to return to Porto Rico immediately and place myself at your disposal...