Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much danger the U. S. faces. Lewis W. Douglas of Mutual Life Insurance Co. gave them the interventionist view ("no compromise with oppression, and no covenant with tyranny"), was politely applauded. Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood argued isolationism, received a spontaneous ovation. As though to duck the dilemma, most speakers belabored N. A. M.'s old, familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column. In a round table that touched on plant...
...most glaring loophole in the Harvard Department of Economics is in the field of labor and social reform. The field is represented by exactly one and one-half courses: 81 (Labor) and 11b (Socialism). Since the dismissal of progressive Ray Walsh in 1936, 81 has been the lame duck of the Department; until this year it was so hopelessly bound up in generalities as to leave the C.I.O. entirely unmentioned. Ec 11b is--partly by nature of its material--the only course which lays sufficient emphasis on the dynamic aspect of economics...
Until this year, a small bird called Ross's goose had a unique distinction: it was the only North American goose or duck whose breeding ground was not known...
Hardly larger than a duck, Ross's goose is the smallest and rarest of American species. It is white, with black wing tips. Northmen call it the "galoot" or "scabby-nosed wavey" (its bill has rough bumps at the base). Its official name came from Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor at Fort Resolution. In autumn the birds migrate south and west to spend the winter in California valleys...
...Senate's age average dropped, with oldsters being replaced by such men as Senator-Bishop Bunker and Senator-Newshawk Joseph Ball of Minnesota (35) its Mormon quota had gone up. Already sitting were Saints William H. King and D.Thomas of Utah. Lame Duck King will be replaced Jan. 3 by chubby Saint Abe Murdock. One indirect Mormon loss: the passing from politics of Mormon-admiring Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona...