Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike is a serious matter at this time of breakneck rearming. Of course a strike which ties up production of the Army's basic training planes should be settled as soon as possible. But the stumbling block in the path to adequate defense is not the union requesting a decent living wage; it is the selfish obstinacy of vested interests, guarding fat dividends and munificent executive salaries, by capitalizing upon the imperative character of the present national emergency. And the Vultee strike situation is merely symptomatic of the attitude of the interests and men who dominate the conduct...
...neither external nor internal debt. Since the death of its bloody, carnal 27-year Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez five years ago, it has also been fortunate in its leader. Like little Guatemala's Jorge Ubico tall, scholarly President Eleazar Lopez Contreras has given the nation a decent, liberal, reformist Government. His term ends next April. Constitutionally, he cannot succeed himself. His people find it hard to imagine that he would attempt to do so by any other means. Fortnight ago elections in 13 of the 20 States gave a great victory to the Bloque Bolivariano coalition which...
Secretary Early was not on the campaign train when President Roosevelt started out again. Dejected, inconsolable, Steve Early gloomed in Washington, fearful that he might have cost his boss the election. Besides committing a first-rate political blunder, he had misbehaved in a way no decent citizen should. But for once newsmen were sorry for him, blaming it all on his hot temper...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia: "... A shameful campaign for a shameless candidate..... There may be such a thing as a . . decent utility man, but I have never met him. . . . Some men have their hair mussed because their brains are working, others because the photographers are working...
...case of an English victory there is at least the possibility of a decent international regime," whereas in the event of a Nazi victory there is none at all, Professor Michael Karpovich concluded last night during an address on the differences between English and German imperialism, sponsored by the Student Defense League...