Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norris-LaGuardia act, passed in 1932 by Labor's friends in Congress, was primarily designed to prevent employers from obtaining injunctions against strikers on flimsy one-sided evidence. The Weirton case was the first famed use of the new law which, according to Judge Nields, could be worked backward against Labor just as well as forward against employers. Not since the courts turned the original meaning of the Clayton Act inside out had Labor suffered such a judicial reverse...
...book, "Looking Backward," is used today in many colleges. Hundreds of Bellamy Associations, made up persons interested not only in reading his works, spread his ideas...
Bellamy, in his book "Looking Backward," predicted that some day paper utensils would be used in cooking with electrical, heat originating on the outside of the utensil itself. Within the past year scientists have discovered a method of cooking precisely in the manner described by the lean, students New Englander...
...BACKWARD GLANCE-Edith Wharton -Appleton-Century ($3). Few writers of any sex or class have been so handicapped as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton. Born a woman, a lady, and rich, she somehow managed to make herself into an almost first-rate author. Few better exhibitions of eating cake and still having it have ever been put on. Now an old lady (72), Author Wharton takes a backward glance over her traveled road, reports in carefully cultivated prose what she has seen along the way. Being a lady, she has forgotten some things and people. Her road, once friendly with many...
...President Frank B. Noyes, publisher of the rich and flaccid Washington Star, was quick to point to the stripe of the opposition. Competitors Hearst and Scripps-Howard were always backward about cooperating with AP projects, said he, and "it is the difference of interests that is concerned here...