Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief and bustling history of the Committee for Industrial Organization records only one important defeat: the repulse of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee last summer by the embattled masters of "Little Steel" led by Labor's most galling nemesis, Tom M. Girdler, president of Republic Steel. If steel labor history repeated itself, this defeat should have settled the labor problems of Mr. Girdler and his friends for a decade or two. But, until recently, labor history never knew an unassuming lawyer named J. Warren Madden and the National Labor Relations Board over which he efficiently presides. Last week, what...
...nomads of the American working class-of drivers who virtually live in their trucks, drive 30 hours without sleep, travel the roads for weeks without getting to bed. Last week a 29-year-old California truck driver summoned up some of this strange nocturnal life on wheels in a brief first novel...
...early life Walt Whitman was a conventional poet of modest gifts, a Brooklyn editor, author of a dull temperance novel, a Democrat, a radical. In the Civil War, after years of drifting, he found himself, and for a brief period became the great spokesman for the spirit of radical humanitarianism. But the exact steps of his transformation are not known and even the biographical details of his life are confused, as Whitman apparently intended they should...
CHICAGO--Dizzy Dean, colorful central figure in one of the greatest baseball deals in years, reported to the Chicago Cubs today and promised them a National League Pennant in a brief conference with Manager Charley Grimm. Two hours after Diz arrived without fanfare, he slipped back to St. Louis to tidy up his business before moving to Chicago for the first transfer in his six-year major league career...
Hicks was graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, next graduated from the Theological School in 1925, and four years later took a M.A. degree in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. For a brief while he taught literature at Smith from a social point of view...