Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denounced the strikers in such violent terms that Labor swore it would have the General's scalp. In the same address General Johnson sealed his official doom, as far as the President was concerned, when he said: "During the whole intense [NRA] experience I have been in constant touch with that old counselor, Judge Louis Brandeis. As you know, he thinks that anything that is too big is bound to be wrong. He thinks NRA is too big, and I agree with...
...Johnson has not answered the questions concerning the future of the NRA. While radicals are acclaiming it as a swing to the left, conservatives hope that the machinery may be disintegrating and that the checks to business may cease. At any rate, the resignation brings to a head the constant criticism which has been launched against the NRA this summer as a fomenter of strikes and as a hindrance to recovery...
After stating his disbelief in the widespread opinion that the President is unfriendly to profits, he emphasized that "the nation needs assurance on this point." Mr. Donham declared that planning is impossible in the midst of constant uncertainly as to government attitude and action, though "too frequently governmental managers must be incompetent to handle the problems they face...
...last the wiles of the ever present New Deal are becoming apparent here in the secluded cloisters of Cambridge. The constant paying out of brain trusters to the gaping jaws of Washington is finally being bemoaned, now that the awful reckoning has at last arrived. The situation at the Law School has really become imminent apparently, for it was found today at registration that there were so few faculty members left to give the courses that a large number were in danger of being omitted. The conditions weren't so bad last year when only a few of the great...
...small-town chemist-electrician named James A. Boze, trudging through the muck of French battlefields, concluded, like many another before him, that the almost constant rains were caused by the incessant explosion of heavy artillery shells. This summer's drought gave James A. Boze of Waxahachie, Tex. an idea. Obtaining damage waivers from the owners of some 27,000 parched acres south of Dallas, he hired a plane, flew over clouds, dropped high-explosive bombs into them. That day it rained in Waxahachie. Farmers thanked Nature, not Boze...