Word: foist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voluntary basis. Perhaps an employment office to provide summer work can be instituted. But if there should be any attempt to use the bargaining power of the closed shop as a big stick with which to beat unreasonable concessions from the University, or by means of which to foist unsatisfactory workers on the dining halls, then the present harmonious agreement would be disrupted. To keep face in a socially-conscious community, Harvard must continue its liberal labor policy; to keep faith with Harvard, the Union must observe the spirit as well as the letter of its contract...
While Government thus edged one step further into Radio, National Association of Broadcasters' Mark Ethridge, most effective voice the broadcasters have found, cracked back at "capsule culture," which sounded to him like an effort to foist etherized Hitlerism. With this parting blast at Government-in-Radio, Temporary President Ethridge retired to devote all his time to running the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times and Station WHAS. Appointed to succeed him as mouthpiece of the industry was another Louisvillian: Neville Miller, 44, who gained national prominence as mayor of the city during the 1937 flood, has served lately as assistant...
...reporting the repercussions in New York City politics caused by the MARCH OF TIME'S filming of Fusion Mayor LaGuardia, says that Tammany Hall controls Radio City's Music Hall. This is such a gross canard that I do not see how TIME ever dared to foist it on the public...
...years later his successors do not dare openly to condemn (it) . . . for they profess adherence to the form. . . . They love to intone praise of liberty, but in their hearts they distrust majority rule because an enlightened majority will not tolerate the abuses which a privileged minority would seek to foist upon the people as a whole...
Most of these suggestions had to do with the Council's finances. At present the Council is supported by voluntary contributions, three-fifths of its income being gifts from bankers. SEC has no very high opinion of bankers, particularly those bankers who helped foist on the U. S. public the $2,000,000,000 worth of dollar bonds now in default. Moreover, SEC found that bankers in their various capacities of trustees, paying agents and underwriters were frequently lined up on the side, not of their customers, but of their clients, the defaulters...