Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes but on the average they were adopted by a vote of over 80% of all employes. These plans provide for works councils who are authorized to bargain collectively on behalf of the employes assenting to the plan. Through such works councils all disputes have been amicably settled where direct negotiation has been resorted to. -'We are prepared, so far as we legitimately can. to see to it that no group of employes, not even a single
...With it the Government pays for its spies at secret work the world over. Because all nations are equally guilty of espionage, there is in Europe a definite technique and etiquet about arresting a foreign spy in peace time. It is not polite to charge a friendly nation with direct complicity. Secret service agents talk largely about "international spy rings," give a series of conflicting but highly colorful stories to excited reporters, arrest a number of other suspects of different nationalities and when pressed, blame everything on Soviet
Subject to parliamentary approvalr Sweden, political arch-enemy of Communism, last week became the first power in all the world to negotiate a direct government loan to Soviet Russia. The loan agreement, announced last week in Moscow, is for 100,000,000 kroner ($26,300,000), big for Sweden, for seven years at 51%. It would shatter once and for all the twelve-year financial blockade by governments against the U. S. S. R. The money must be spent in Sweden, would buy high grade steel for tools, electrical machinery, ball bearings, iron...
...based the old system of restrictions and regulations of all sorts. Dr. Eliot devoted himself to a destruction of this philosophy and the substitution of the current principles which place responsibility upon the individual and allow him maximum freedom to exercise his personal preferences. Compulsory physical exercise is in direct contradiction to this modern climate of opinion and should be abandoned. Freshmen should be offered facilities for exercise in informal groups such as those which now participate in House sports. Such an informal program has the added practical advantage, of permitting economies in the sorely taxed H.A.A. budget...
...been decided that Joe Losey, director of "Little Old Boy," which played in New York last year, will direct the show. The officers of the club have narrowed the field of possible productions to three and the play given will either be "Sunshine House," by H. C. Voller, "Heavenly Express," by Albert Bein, or "Peripherie," a Max Reinhardt production. A definite decision about the play will be made in a few days...