Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single country unless it simultaneously is fomented in all countries anc they become presently Communist. On this point, the acts of Stalin show his theory now to be that a success can be made oi Communism in one single country, namely the Soviet Union, and that the bulk of its funds should be devoted to achieving success there at this time, not scattered to sow Communism in other countries. These two points of view are generally accepted today as representing "Trotskyism," on the one hand, and Stalinism on the other. At the time of the British Coal Strike (which precipitated...
...wills of rich men than any other type of philanthropy. Biggest educational windfall since 1924 when Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke established his Duke Endowment (present value approximately $53,000,000), dropped last week in Manhattan when the will of Banker Charles Hayden (TIME, Jan. 18) set aside the bulk of his $50,000,000 for tune for "the moral, mental and physical wellbeing, uplifting and development of boys and young...
Chiefly because the bulk of its workers were unskilled or semiskilled, floating from plant to plant and city to city during seasonal layoffs, the automobile industry never had a union worth mentioning until the Blue Eagle was hatched in 1933. The A. F. of L., Homer Martin soon discovered, was really interested only in preserving the power & privilege of its unions of skilled craftsmen, which had no place for the automobile working masses. He went along, nonetheless, and when automobile locals were merged into a United Automobile Workers International Union, he was appointed vice president. Young, educated, eloquent...
...Franco had left the deadlocked siege of Madrid, flown south to sunny Seville and was starting an entirely new White offensive to drive the Spanish Cabinet of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, which fled from Madrid months ago, out of Valencia. Various airmen who flew for Largo Caballero before the bulk of his Soviet flyers arrived were trickling out of Spain last week. Said Chicago Airman Hal Du Berrier, reaching Paris: "I may fight in China next, Spain isn't to my taste. The Russians got everything into their hands in the last few weeks. Just before I left...
...bulk of U. S. newsorgans meanwhile were off in full cry after they knew not what. They expected to find it by sniffing around Mrs. Simpson in Cannes and around the Rothschild Castle in Austria. To many U. S. editors, dispatches from their regular Vienna correspondents were a revelation last week, and soon some of these correspondents will be fired. For many years they have in Vienna performed with the dexterity of long practice the service of inventing daily over coffee and whipped cream what is happening simultaneously in Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Athens, Bucharest, Prague and even Warsaw...