Word: exert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress as part of his program. Many of them are in their '20s and most of them are called "the hot dog boys" because they are disciples of Felix Frankfurter. Because of their intolerant zeal for drastic action, because of their youthful enthusiasm for largescale reform, they exert a potent, if nonpolitical, influence in shaping the whole character of the Roosevelt Administration. Political Washington has never seen their like before, and last week political Washington suddenly held its breath because of them-hardly knowing whether to quake with fear or roar with merriment. Before a House Committee hearing...
...Eduard Benes. Said he: "The Habsburgs cannot be separated from their history, and although they may personally be agreeable, even their presence in Austria and Hungary as private residents would endanger the peace of Europe. Jugoslavia and Italy are particularly threatened by possible restoration, since the Habsburg crown would exert a great temptation on the Roman Catholic Croats in Jugoslavia and the Catholic Tyrolese in Italy to join the recreated Empire. ... If Archduke Otto returns. Czechoslovakia will sever diplomatic relations with Austria." Thus, possibly because Austria's other crises were for the moment quiescent, louder than at any time...
...interest, directly or indirectly to attempt by interference, influence, restraint, favor, coercion, or lockout, or by any other means, to impair the rights of employees guaranteed under section four (collective bargaining) or to refuse to recognize and deal with representatives of his employees, or to fail to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements with such representatives concerning wages, hours and other conditions of employment...
What is a "favor?" How can an employer's mind be held up to scrutiny and a discovery made as to whether he failed "to exert every reasonable effort" to make an agreement with his employees or to maintain it once he had agreed? To determine the motive, the board is to have power to compel the submission of all books, papers, data, and figures and to subpoena anybody in the United States in any jurisdiction and summon them to Washington by telegraph or letter and compel attendance...
...desirable process, and may with benefit proceed a great deal further. At the same time, it is well to mark off the field for undergraduate action in politics. National youth movements have been organized in Italy, Germany, and Russia with a definite place in the political scheme. Students exert great political influence in Latin countries, and Cuban students were at one period dictators to the administration. There are those who would have American students take a similar part in political activities, lobbying and agitating on various issues. College men however, who are destined some day to take over the reins...