Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Form No. 940, approved Jan. 23, 1915. U. S. Army transport. Name to be inserted on card." Here, according to the Germans, is proof positive that the United States was prepared to enter the war in January...
...parachute, a home-made product, advertised the parachute. The flaming tights did the rest; for they drew such a crowd that shop windows and iron railings along the street were broken. To this throng the aviator advertised by word of mouth a department store, an eye doctor, whose card he wore on his chest, and himself, whose card he passed around, as Lieut. Hubert Julian, M.D., the M.D. being translated by the lieutenant to mean mechanical draftsman. How much more effectual it would be to drop men into the Stadium between halves than to fly kites over it. Certainly...
...open shop " campaign has little chance of success in a rising tabor market. When business conditions are bad and the surplus of workers is great, the unions can be weakened, if not actually destroyed, by "open shop" contracts which penalize the worker with discharge if he keeps his union card. But when business begins to revive, as it is reviving now, and unemployment vanishes, the demand for labor is too keen, and the opportunities of quick profits are too tempting to hazard the cost and wastefulness of strikes. It is then more feasible to admit unionism, even the closed shop...
...Soviet government has another stimulus for the development of national culture: a card index system and forcing process on its men of letters. When the writer, educated in Soviet schools, appears before the public, he is placed in a category ranked according to the promise he seemed to give. There is no quibbling over the relative merits of authors once the government's stamp is upon them. The critic's function is denied. Nor can a writer rest upon a chance success, for he must turn out regularly the number of words called for by his category, or else lose...
...gathering at the largest and most luxurious of the clubs here, the Union, to hear for myself the sort of fetid propaganda the capitalist directorate are putting into the mouths of this puppet faculty. The doormen refused to let me in simply because I could not show a membership card. Another proof of their preposterous caste exclusiveness! Luckily I know so well the capitalist mind, that I was able to write a full report of the talk to the comrades in New York, notwithstanding...