Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace. Therefore he presented Congress with a "Labor Disputes Act." To the industrialists in Washington at General Johnson's call Mr. Wagner spoke of his bill: "I believe that most fair minded employers . . . will be heartily in favor of it." But those of them who had seen the design of his new club shuddered in their seats. Old Weapons, The arms with which, to date, Senator Wagner has fought his battle are comparatively simple. His National Labor Board, founded last August during the soft coal strike, was supplemented by miniature offspring called Regional Labor Boards of which 18, with...
Eschewing modern or mechanistic design, Architect Iofan drew a Romanesque pyramid of six fluted, concentric cylinders which together form a pedestal for a 260-ft. statue of Nicolai Lenin, with his face turned to his own tomb on the Red Square. Steps 492 ft. wide lead from the street up to a colonnaded arcade opening into the amphitheatres with back-to-back stages. The larger, which will be decorated with a mammoth panorama of the Revolution, seats 20,000; the smaller 6,000. Escalators go up to a library which will hold 500,000 books, a maze of museums, foyers...
...objects in the exhibition are produced by machines for domestic, commercial, industrial and scientific purposes. Beauty determined the choice . . . whether their fine design was intended by artist or engineer, or merely a concomitant of machine production...
...trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face with a man she is trying to forget. Ann Dvorak plays her young sister, infatuated with a poolroom loafer in the nearest village. What prevents Heat Lightning from being a first rate picture is that it lacks neatness of design. Good shot: the gas-station and the road beyond illuminated by a flash of heat lightning - which serves no other purpose than to give the picture its title...
...canny. They wanted to be rich before they died. They all got their wish. The interwoven strands of their careers make up a pattern so complicated that at times it resembles a crazy quilt, but Author Josephson's patient unraveling shows a general if sometimes unconscious concentric design, spiraling ever closer to monopolistic unity. Rough-&-ready "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, plebeian founder of a proudly aristocratic family, trusted nobody, kept all his accounts in his head. One of his business letters: Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I will not site you, for law takes too long...