Word: foe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glowering in his seat across the aisle, just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within...
Last week the Dail Eireann in Dublin passed by one vote a bill to create an arbitration board for civil service grievances. Two days later, Prime Minister de Valera surprised friend & foe alike by deciding that the vote showed lack of confidence. He dissolved the Dail Eireann, called for general elections on June...
Harvard last met a league foe May 21 when it downed the Indians on Soldiers Field. Its next circuit game will be played against the Big Green on June 18 at Hanover. In the meantime the dark-horse Dartmouth aggregation has been picking up games by defeating Yale and Cornell last week-end and now stands second in the standings with six triumphs and three setbacks...
...times before Herr Henlein has visited England. Not long ago he pledged to British friends that he was "really democratic at heart," said he would never make his party openly Nazi. He did so a few weeks ago. Last fortnight Führer Henlein denounced his democratic Sudeten German foe, Wenzel Jaksch, for "the treacherous and un-German move of recently visiting London in a time of political crisis...
Venerable, 80-year-old Carter Glass of Virginia, great & good foe of Franklin Roosevelt's heavy spending program, announced he would soon quit Washington, return home to Lynchburg. Friends gave two reasons: 1) he is disgusted with the turn of events in Congress; 2) several weeks ago his doctor told him to go home and rest...