Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor world since the automotive baiting that even undergraduate sympathizers are signing up for work with the union leaders. Indeed, the labor committee of the Harvard Student Union, after surveying conditions in a number of Cambridge factories last fall, is taking up the more practical task of direct canvassing on behalf of the C.I.O...
...Wallace Woodworth '24 will direct the concert, with Irving G. Fine '37 and William W. Austin '39 as accompanists...
Gradually the opposition to the President's proposal began to take form, the Republicans generally leaving the leadership to Democrats in order not to make it a partisan issue. Democratic Senator Burke of Nebraska described the bill as ''the most direct attack on the independence of our judiciary which the country has seen." Democratic Senator King of Utah declared, 'T most certainly do not approve. . . ." Democratic Senator Glass, at home in Lynchburg. Va., snorted at newshawks, "I thought it was generally understood that I was opposed to any tinkering with the Supreme Court...
Unfortunately the Home Secretary had opened, by mentioning King George III, direct access of attack upon King George VI by the few republican M.P.'s and the lone Communist M.P. last week. Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, a congenitally stanch Monarchist usually quick to choke off belittlers of the Royal Family, was obliged to let them have their...
...until 1917 was Mr. Scattergood ready to scatter the good of cheap power. Then, starting with 5,000 customers, he launched a campaign to buy up the private companies, continually forcing the issue with direct competition. The Power Bureau would merely string a line down a street parallel to the private lines, offer lower rates, wait for the rush of customers. The private companies could not meet the price without lowering rates in the whole territory. In 1922, after furious litigation, Southern California Edison had to capitulate, selling out to the city...