Word: bane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know why our brotherhood should not be in this, the largest labor organization in the world."* Elated, President Green enthused, "No more significant event has ever happened in the history of the A. F. of L. than this announcement." Injunction Power is the breaker of strikes, the bane of organized labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted a bill last summer (TIME, Aug. 23). With but one dissenting vote the convention endorsed the bill, hoped wanly for congressional action on it. Organization of Southern Labor was undertaken by the federation with a fervent, choral...
...Assistant Secretary of The Navy for Aeronautics: "Consider this achievement of inestimable value to aviation." Edward Pearson Warner, Editor of Aviation, Mr. Ingalls' predecessor in the Navy Department : ''An epic of aviation. Nothing approaching its importance has been accomplished within the past two years." Thurman Harrison Bane, chief of The Aviation Corp.'s technical staff: "Doolittle's flight marks the first stage in man's conquest of flying in fog, now aviation's greatest obstacle." Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, president of Curtiss Flying Service: "The mechanical perfection of the new instruments employed required...
...visa fee, bane of U. S. travelers abroad, started in 1920 when U. S. consuls were instructed to collect $9, plus $1 for executing the application, from each and every foreigner who wanted a passport visaed. Delighted at finding a new source of revenue, several foreign governments instantly retaliated, charged all U. S. tourists $10 each...
Died. Baron Karl von Skoda, 51, inventor of the Skoda howitzer (bane of Liege, Antwerp, Verdun); in Vienna...
...Sever--not to mention other sanctuaries--the Student Vagabond has disliked the month of March. Notwithstanding its general accepted zoological aspects, this month has always seemed to him more or less a Sahara: nor do the prevalent examinations--leading educators are agreeing with the Vagabond that they are a bane--serve in any way to aid the desert in its traditional work of blossoming as the rose...