Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron police "let a nonstriking minority in and out." Actually 85% and better of Goodyear employees were on the job the day following the so-called night of rioting, and the U. R. W. did not declare the disturbance a strike until after the riot had occurred. U. R. W. leadership has since raised hell with its membership for unauthorized stoppages of work, declaring no more will be tolerated...
...avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
...whole, he reported, in its last session the 75th Congress had done better than any Congress "between the end of the World War and the spring of 1933": It had failed him on Reorganization and on helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money...
...great tension and the strain has had its effect. I do not regret those hours, nor complain of them. . . . I was offered an opportunity to turn to writing as a profession. That made me realize my duty to my family and that for their sake I must try to better establish my financial position. . . . The welfare and the glory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will always be uppermost in my mind. . . . "Leon G. Turrou...
President Roosevelt, after taking counsel with his Cabinet, last week picked the six members from his executive branches who will sit with six from Congress on the potent temporary National Economic Committee, better known as the Monopoly Investigation (TIME, June 20). Because the President originally asked for an all-executive committee, because Congress kept control of only one-fifth of the $500,000 expense money it voted, and because of the six Congress members at least one, Representative Eicher of Iowa, is an Administration wheelhorse, the six executives will doubtless dominate the committee's policy. Significantly, not the President...