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...baseball bat sheathed in sponge rubber, to diminish the frequency of foul balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish and there will be less poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Sore Socialists | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...cause of peace and is participated in by speakers who have no other axes to grind. With Hapgood and Lovett leading today's discussion, an undue emphasis is bound to be placed upon the problems that confront labor, which will distort the supposed objective of the peace strike and diminish the singleness of purpose that such a strike should strive to attain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE STRIKE--OR AGITATION? | 4/21/1937 | See Source »

...idea has been advanced that this is legislation intended to prevent strikes and thereby prevent impeding commerce. Let me read a few lines from the Act itself: 'Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impede or diminish in .any way the right to strike.' So I think we may start with the idea that the Labor Board Act is not one to prohibit strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Four 5-4; One 9-0 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...science. For instance, give the dailies to the metaphysicians; the weeklies to the psychologists, the radio and movies to experts in social science. And let it be stipulated that no edition and no story be released until the entire Board agree upon the truth. This would at once diminish the output of press, radio and cinema to precisely what that output was in the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungled Orator | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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