Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried on as usual without benefit of outside management was at once relieving and disturbing. Here was a strike that was not a strike: the "strikers" were working and the product was being produced. (Whether or not the "strikers" expected to be paid for working while striking was not clear.) Unintentionally, militant Michigan Labor had, in effect, provided an object lesson in bloodless revolution...
...labor theoreticians, there are usually but two valid approaches to the problem of political action: 1) the historic A. F. of L. policy of rewarding its friends and punishing its enemies but keeping clear of any long-term commitments; 2) an independent political party divorced from the structure and personalities of the two old parties, with candidates of its own and a program of social regeneration. But Labor's actions in practice have often confounded the theoreticians. New York's precocious and pragmatic American Labor Party has defied neat ideological characterization by putting Democratic and Republican nominees...
...under a sky clear except for a few flaky, high clouds, the climbers left the lodge, 16 on skis with "climbers,"* four on snowshoes. They followed a snow-tractor's broad track for two miles, then cached snowshoes and skis and began to hike. At a chute near a crag called Crater Rock, they affixed crampons (spikes) to their boots to insure their footing on ice. Split into three strings, they followed two trailbreakers, cutting steps ahead, up Zig Zag draw to the west of Crater Rock, to within 50 feet of the top ridge...
Ideas included a new technique developed by German psychologists, for revealing musical talent in one-year-old infants. System: Stimulate subject 1) by striking a clear-toned bell. 2) by uttering a Bronx cheer. If subject goo-goos pleasure at sound of bell and cries at sound of Bronx cheer, musical talent is not necessarily proved, may be reasonably suspected...
...made because I told him I had been using customers' securities improperly. He was aghast at the fact and terribly disturbed. He said he would see if he could arrange to lend me the money I needed and told me to find out what was necessary to clear up the situation. I did so and the next day the money was loaned...