Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paul Leach of the Chicago Daily News came a muffled crack: "He's cutting off the tail right behind the ears." The President did not hear it. In high good humor he concluded the conference, turned to his next important appointment of the day: a meeting with Business bigwigs to discuss co-operation between Government and Business (see col. 3). After hearing such an effusion of Presidential sentiments, the reporters retired amazed and mystified. Even the "death sentence" of the Holding Company Act permits first degree holding companies under certain conditions. Abolition of all holding companies would break...
...first crack in C. I. O.'s façade appeared when the Garment Workers' official organ, Justice, laid the blame for the collapse of the A. F. of L.C. I. O. peace negotiations on John L. Lewis (TIME, Jan. 10). But the Dubinsky speech last week was the first time that one member of the C. I. O. high command has attacked another in open forum. Briefly and bluntly Mr. Dubinsky declared that the peace negotiators had arrived at a basis for settlement but that the formula was personally vetoed by John L. Lewis...
...Gluckes and Rolls, using running water to teach them the elegant Deep Bubbling Water Tour. Modern breeders lef young birds learn by listening to older champions. Some trainers have tried phonograph records, but not successfully. The birds learn and include in their song the needle's scratch and crack...
First back-crack to the doctrinal report came from the Church Association, an Evangelical (low Church) Anglican group, whose secretary said: "The commission has incubated a report which is merely an addled ostrich egg. . . . According to the commission, you can think what you like and still be a Christian...
...asked him about his favorite hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That...