Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminaries for the Pasteur Debate will take place this evening. Candidates will speak in English for five minutes on the subject: "Resolved, That, as opposed to Mr. Siegfried's opinion. French industry may adopt American methods of mass production without fear of compromising its individualistic advantages." The judges, Professor R. L. Hawkins '03, and Dr. A. C. Sprague '21, will choose six men from the group appearing tonight, as the ones who are to speak in the finals on May 2 in Paine Hall...
...South the union labor movement has made the smallest headway. Of old U. S. ancestry, the workers were individualists, long trained to stand alone. Fanatically religious (mostly "wash-foot" Baptists), they viewed organized labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they...
...Skoda munitions plant, once the chief arsenal of Imperial Austria and still suspected of supplying arms to China. Czechoslovakia has bought the right to manufacture a lighter model of the internationally famed Hispano-Suiza Eight ($12,000). "Unless we raise our tariff against American automobiles," concluded M. Novak, "I fear that at least 20,000 workers in our new automotive Infant Industry will soon be out of their jobs." The Czechoslovak tariff on foreign motors is already 40% to 42%. The five U. S. makes which led, last year, in exports to Czechoslovakia were : Cadillac Packard Chrysler Ford Chevrolet trucks...
...fear of ergot has been subtly inseminated throughout the U. S. during the last year, adding to the trepidation of conception. This week the source of that fear, a trade controversy, became public...
...most timorous mergophobe need not fear that the deal will create a world communications monopoly. Still the active, eager competitor of I.T.&T.'s wire systems is the mighty Western Union. Looming is a battle with Britain's merged cable-wireless companies. And for good measure, last week, Sweden's Kreuger & Toll (holding and financing company for the Swedish match trust) threatened to invade the foreign telephone field, in direct competition with...