Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...element of Depression, wage cuts, past and future, continued last week to engage the perplexed attention of businessmen throughout the land. During March 335 pay reductions averaging 10% and affecting 43,500 workers were reported to the U. S. Labor Department as compared with 26 cuts in the same month last year. March also failed to show any general increase in employment over February though manufacturing industries did hire about 1% more workers. In Manhattan industrialists gathered secretly to discuss the "advisability" of "wage adjustments," departed with the feeling that "moderate reductions" were inevitable. The textile, steel and oil industries...
...Commissioner of Public Works ("Secretary of State" in the Chicago cabinet) Mayor Cermak again turned to the "better element" that had supported his campaign and chose Col. Albert Arnold Sprague, 54. millionaire grocer (Sprague, Warner & Co.), Wartime infantry officer, potent crime crusader, civic leader. Commissioner Sprague had served in the same capacity under Mayor Dever, was thoroughly familiar with...
...maintenance." Said the New York Daily Mirror: "An attempt at suicide preceded Miss Compton's marriage . . . Dowling was an interlude . . . from which the actress emerged when it reached the ears of the man she really loved, causing a serious physical breakdown. Then she repented, but a mysteriously powerful element was already on the move. "Marry Dowling! "She must obey. Perhaps she will tell the story some day. "Who had informed against her? Detectives-possibly! . . . Telephone wires talk...
...give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect the wreckage for himself. Fiercely proud of his creation, he was certain there was no structural failure. "The flight should not have been undertaken in existing weather conditions," he said. "I would say the human element entered very strongly into the cause of the crash." It was drizzling when the plane took off from Kansas City for Los Angeles, but reports said the weather was clearing in the west. At Wichita, only 60 mi. from the crash, the sun was shining...
...great part of the sectarian quarrels in Jerusalem have no foundation other than aimless religiosity, but there is in addition an element of genuine faith which is rare today. This quality, which has been largely lost in the evolution of religious toleration and scientific scepticism, is one which should not be completely abandoned. Although the world will-probably never return to the limited faith of the past, of which the disorder in Jerusalem is an expression, there must be some adjustment made to modern knowledge and a creed built upon...