Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lopez objects to the high notes of "the rocket's red glare." Would he expect anyone to describe rockets with low notes? . . . He also objects to "land of the free" as being too high. Instead of being too high, it is one of the loveliest climaxes ever written to any song. ... I have been a composer for many years, and have never heard as much as one complaint about the high notes of our National Anthem until Mr. Lopez came along...
...union's right to strike. Arbitration of minor controversies arising out of signed contracts and prohibition of strikes & lockouts (during the duration of the contracts) is now accepted in all N. M. U. agreements. But in settling basic issues like wages, hours and working conditions, the union wants free and untrammeled negotiation. Therefore, to the council, restrictive legislation is a device of the shipowners, and Mr. Kennedy is their "staunch lobbyist...
Oklahoma has had many bounties. Between 1889 and 1902 some 420,000 U. S. citizens got free homesteads in Oklahoma. Other lucky Oklahomans have struck oil. Their less lucky neighbors have made Oklahoma a No. 1 centre of easy money crusades, including the Townsend Movement, whose Cherokee-blooded onetime Vice President Gomer Smith Oklahoma last year elected to Congress. Last week it appeared, however, that some dishonest Oklahomans had found another bounty, the Social Security Board's old age assistance plan...
...bureau was closed in 1936 and 1937 because its free legal advice to poor people was thought to be in itself an illegal function, but since its reopening last Fall, the number of cases handled compares well with peak years before the break...
...above men were chosen largely on the basis of their performance in last Saturday's Quadrangular Meet. Jaakko hopes to bring home another victory for the mile relay team. Lightbody will be free to devote all his attention to his leg of the mile, since he does not have to also run the 600 as he did in the Quad Meet...