Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These drastic changes envisaged received the acceptance of the Council by a 7 to 2 vote, and the report will now go to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. The Committee's decision concerning the proposals contained in the report will probably be available...
...Italian Treaty "guaranteeing" the status quo of the Mediterranean. In January Dictator Mussolini had personally promised Mr. Chamberlain that he had no intention of changing that status quo. Last week Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano gravely assured British Ambassador Lord Perth that Italy did not intend to take "drastic action" in Albania. Just three days later Italian warships raced across the Adriatic, Italian legionnaires landed under protective gunfire at four Albanian ports, Italian aviators bombed Albanian towns...
...Representative Clare Hoffman, the National Association of Manufacturers could get nowhere toward amendment. Since then A. F. of L.'s leadership has plumped for change. Now Clare Hoffman approvingly quotes A. F. of L. to the considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened up for amendments, Labor's enemies may have a field...
...short, Lindsay Warren made Reorganization, model 1939, a good deal less drastic than Reorganization 1938. He also made it politically possible-just barely possible-to get the bill passed...
...continued moderation from both parties can make this agreement the foundation of a lasting structure. Conceivably, if standards of living continue to rise in the next few years, the Union will be justified in asking further wage increases;--but it must be remembered that every increase will mean either drastic restriction of Temporary Student Employment, or increased dining hall prices, or both. Certainly if the Social Security law is not amended to include educational institutions, the University will be obliged to increase the return now provided by its pension plan and to grant the Union's demand that...