Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern incidents with which the vast attitude is ending are as self-explanatory as cheeks marked by anguish or a hand that falls exhausted." Spain's last 300 years Ortega calls a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping down the high road of history." The sectionalism which has marked modern Spanish history, notably the movements for Basque and Catalan nationalism, have their roots. Ortega thinks, deep in the past. It took a strong...
...according to evidence lately presented before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee, consists largely of furnishing employers with arms and tear gas for use against striking workers. On the fourth to seventh floors are housed the National Labor Relations Board and its no employes. Since October 1935, obscured by a cloud of uncertain legality, hedged about by injunctions, its authority doubted by Labor and challenged by Capital, the Board has labored inconspicuously to substitute law and reason for guns and gas in ordering the relations of U. S. employers and employes...
...member of NLRB. Last week it became inexcusable to be ignorant of the fact that there are two men named Smith on the three-man Board. For with certification of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act by the Supreme Court (TIME, April 19), NLRB stepped out from under its cloud into the full sunlight of rank and power...
...battery of jubiliant oarsmen got off their train at the South Station last evening, they scemed to be heading for a successful season with Navy now the biggest cloud on the horizon ahead. Princeton is no mean crew, and Captain Eddie Bennett's eight trimmed them, cleanly and soundly...
...have been merely a cloud passing across the sun. But more than one observer noted last week that a cool wind was blowing and a shadow had fallen on the President's popularity-his popularity not with the public but with that circle of a few thousand men who constitute official Washington. To the people who voted for him last November, Franklin Roosevelt was Mr. Right, but to official Washington he has been, even more, Mr. Big. They might occasionally grumble at his tactics, but they had much the same practical faith and trust in Roosevelt the victor...