Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi hangings are generally held at noon but to avoid a mob scene ten trucks loaded with guardsmen left Jackson before midnight to carry the three prisoners back to Hernando and to death. At 4:30 in the morning the three Negroes stood in the Hernando jail under garish electric lights, praying aloud while the gallows was made ready. Father Collins, a favored spectator, stood beside Sheriff Roscoe Lauderdale. In the hall below the trap through which the bodies would fall were about 150 Hernandoans who did not mind getting up early for such an occasion. As the noose...
...first Chris Olsen experienced difficulties. The density of the water destroyed perspective. He would often miss his canvas altogether. When he dropped brushes, they would float to the surface. Now he has mastered the knack of water perspective, uses a palette knife instead of a brush. To avoid chills, even in the warm Bahaman waters where he paints, he stays down only 20 minutes at a stretch, makes four or five trips a day. Sometimes Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, the Museum's Curator of Living Invertebrates, joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work...
...situation then turned to the American Federation of Labor, where the President is presumed to have considerable influence. If he pleads with the A. F. of L. to postpone or avoid a strike, it has been thought the labor chiefs would agree, for certainly the President and his administration have been doing more to advance the cause of labor than any regime in the history of our country...
...American Constitution is based on the idea of a check by Congress on the Executive, both being coordinate in rank. The desirability of teamwork and harmony on legislative programs has come to be understood by the people as meaning cooperation in a broad sense so as to avoid tiresome delays and quibbling opposition. It remains to be seen, however, whether the people are ready to adopt the European idea and place all the power in the hands of the executive so that members of Congress hereafter become rubber stamps...
...Roosevelt myth, that "system and "organization" and "planning" can enable a broken industrial structure to employ millions of men and to increase wages, will last just so 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...