Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marvin Barrett's three related poems are entitled " Vacation Excursions." Of these, the first is as good as anything he has published in the are less impressive because, in spite of occasional past, perhaps better. The second and third parts brilliant lines, they depend too much on general statement and generalized diction; but who would complain of this...
...President Roosevelt urging enactment of a bill providing for condemnation of rights of way across ten States which would supply Middle Atlantic refineries with crude oil for finished petroleum products. Purpose of the bill: to relieve pressure on the railroads. The Atlantic Coast's congested defense areas now depend for their petroleum on tankers plying between the Gulf Coast and Middle Atlantic ports. When the ships are moved into transocean lanes, the railroads must supply the oil. Therefore, argued Mr. Roosevelt, build the pipelines...
...encyclicals are finally bearing fruit. Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil of Chicago posed the alternative in 1939 when he addressed a C.I.O. mass meeting of packinghouse workers which inaugurated a national drive to unionize the packers: "If the Catholic Church does not do its duty, workers may have to depend on isms." And last year the N.C.W.C.'s administrative board, which represents the whole American hierarchy, roundly stated: "The first claim of labor, which takes priority over any claim of the owners to profits, respects the rights to a living wage." Pius XI's admonition on the social...
...rally to celebrate "I Am An American Day" and the Mayor, facing the biggest crowd in Manhattan's history, let himself go. He led the bands, introduced the speakers, exchanged ancient jokes with Eddie Cantor, and wound up with a message to dictators : "I tell them not to depend on the fifth column in this country because there is only one column here. That is the American column." He overshadowed Harold Ickes, bubbled and sizzled like a drop of water in a hot frying pan, and left Manhattan with the astonished realization that it had produced at a patriotic...
...came to depend too much on Pa. She asked him, for instance, to settle a strike of 210 workers making mosquito netting at Arcadia Knitting Mills, Inc. in Allentown, Pa. She dumped cases into the Board's lap at the rate of almost one a day, not counting Sundays and holidays. The Board did what it could, working night & day, sitting for twelve to 18 hours at a stretch. Of 34 cases certified, it ended 28, sent one back to Ma Perkins as out of its jurisdiction...