Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal replica of the Sugar Institute. If Lawyers Fly & Rice, who are directed by Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell and U. S. District Attorney George Z. Medalie, win their case, a victorious Government is likely to proceed, hammer & tongs, against dozens of associations. Thus the case may disturb a larger proportion of industry and commerce. It is in no way similar to many of the anti-trust suits pending which in-clude criminal actions against racketeers charged with intimidating competitors...
...Japanese exclusion act. In recent years the opinion has spread that the exclusion was unnecessary, and even unjust. The notion that Japanese immigration furnished dangerous competition for American labor was gradually being dispelled. The two hundred Japanese who would be admitted yearly by the quota system could hardly disturb American labor even in the depression...
...propose to call an extra session of Congress. I know nothing that would so disturb the healing processes now undoubtedly going on in the economic situation. We cannot legislate ourselves out of the world economic depression. We can and will work...
...hour: Must wages come down everywhere and drastically? In his eloquent address, Bethlehem's President Schwab had said: "We have had a stabilized wage rate since 1923. In boom times our men have done the square thing by us. We have not had strikes or unreasonable demands to disturb us when markets were good, and in dull times we have not tried to take our loss of business out of the hide of the worker by reducing wages. This ... is an outstanding example of the ability of business leadership...
...business men, within the areas for which we are responsible, best meet the needs of the American people, most nearly approximate supplying their wants, maintain profits, handle problems of unemployment, face the Russian challenge, and at the same time aid Europe and contribute most to or disturb least the cause of International Peace...