Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temper, NRAdministrator Johnson appeared at Portland, told the Pacific Advertising Clubs' convention: "It is not good business?it is not good Americanism, it is merely madness to say that any set of our people cannot sit down around a table without violence or bloodshed. Strikes are a necessary evil, but, like wars, they never got anything for anybody?unless it was bloodshed and black eyes." Thankfully the General added: "Strikes are happily no longer NRA babies...
...guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind of European alliance to attack the Reich may now be forming, Vice Leader Hess began to switch his talk from German to French. "Malheur pour nous! Malheur pour vous! Et malheur pour tout le monde!" puzzled Germans heard him shout. "An evil day for us! For you! And for all the world...
...pulling wires. It wanted a place for one of its own among the five commissioners who will boss exchanges and administer the Securities Act-a man who could temper the New Deal's belief that all boomtime deals were deliberate snares for the public, that all speculation was evil, that all stock profits were graft, that all "money changers" belonged rightly in Hell...
...time an evil gets into a proverb it is generally old and notorious beyond repair. Such are "the law's delays." For ;25 years bar associations and public men have been trying to speed up court actions. One big cause of court delays are arguments over practice and procedure. One half the questions on which Federal Appellate Courts must rule concern procedure alone: Federal Courts are guided by a complex and undigested mass of laws passed by Congress, of judicial decisions and diverse practices in 48 different State courts. Although every President since William Howard Taft has joined...
Before it fell upon evil days in February 1933 Willys-Overland employed 25,000 workers, was one of Toledo's biggest companies. Since John North Willys and later President David Wilson were appointed receivers, it has employed some 3,000 who are now finishing up production of 7,500 units authorized by the court. Willys-Overland's plight, far from hopeless, is partly due to a deficiency of working capital. Receiver Davis last week declared that unless new capital were forthcoming, the plant would have to shut down. "A calamity!" shrieked the Chamber of Commerce. Its point: Would...