Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is an obvious point to this dichotomy. Japan may not retain full sovereignty in the outer zone after the war. But she clearly intends to remain dominant economically. Japan is apparently jockeying to be in a position, after Hitler's fall, to bargain for a negotiated peace in which the war-weary Allies would lose no face, Japan would lose no vital advantages. If she achieved such a stalemate, Japan would have...
Courage in India. In India, two native paratroop students got to worrying on the eve of their first jump, asked an officer: "From what height?" "Five hundred feet." "Nothing doing," they chorused, tried to bargain for 300, were told the chutes might not have time to open. "Oh, that's different," they sighed, "We get parachutes...
...same side in a dispute. While both have asked the dissident miners to return to work, neither has taken positive action. The Board is without power to act in internecine union struggles, although union president Lewis obviously is in a position to do so. He has neglected to bargain, and has refused to confer or compromise with the strikers...
...again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang. He sulked in Manchuria and tried a new bargain-this time with the Japanese. For that he earned the premiership of Manchukuo...
...proposal was attacked and ridiculed as soon as it appeared. "Bargain-basement education . . . smacks of Alice in Wonderland . . . educational charlatanism," growled Dr. Edwin R. Van Kleeck, New York's assistant commissioner of Instructional Supervision. The speed-up "would make more headaches than it would cure," warned Dean Herbert Hawkes of Columbia. Students "would be coming into the colleges with a year less maturity, and the difficulties.of adjustments would be even more serious than they...