Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the President's fireside "truce" proposal, which sounded straight forward enough as it came out of loudspeakers, began to take on a tenuous air as White House interpreters got to work on it. Emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins explained that during the "trial period" Labor would not be asked to foreswear the strike. Secretary Stephen Early made it known that employers would still be free to invoke the lockout, and decision to submit their troubles to arbitration or mediation would have to come voluntarily from each side...
...others) up his sleeve, that Harvard wasn't at all prepared for. In the first half, you will remember that the scarlet-jerseyed horde was playing a balanced line--an equal number of men on each side of center. Even that tricky shift finally resolved itself into a balanced forward wall. The Harvard linemen were able to take care of themselves against this system. The shift held no terrors for them as long as Bates started its play from behind a balanced line...
...Billions of dollars of invested capital have today a greater security of present and future earning power....." ". . . Gains of trade and industry, as a whole, have been substantial.... There are assurances that hearten all forward-looking men and women...
...jobs in a man's world, with no concessions asked or given because of their sex. Women in politics may get the headlines and Sunday feature stories but it is women in Big Business that make Mrs. Reid and her friends feel that the world is moving forward. The list of lose who hold top-notch positions makes an impressive roster: Josephine Roche, who owns and runs her late father's Rocky mountain Fuel Co. (TIME, Sept. 7, 1931; Sept. 24); Mary Elizabeth Dillon, who rose from office-girl to president of the 12,000,000 Brooklyn Borough...
...weakest general sector in the Harvard setup was the line between the two ends. Even with Captain Gundiach in action the forward part of the attack and defense was not strong. Gundy himself was not going well, due to his injury, and lack of practice...