Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will differ from the N.R.A. in being less arbitrary and more in line with traditional principles of careful consideration and democratic administration. The proposals already made by members of Major Berry's Council provide for an administrative tribunal, similar to the existing Federal Trade Commission, in place of the haphazard and ill-considered promulgation of codes under the reign of General Johnson. Most of the objections to the N.R.A. came not because of the provisions for minimum wages and maximum hours but because of the intolerable state of affairs brought on by a "government by ukase". If under...
...present campaign it has been the fate of shallow minds to confuse the dramatic, band-stand plays of Roosevelt for political liberalism. The Yale News falls squarely into this trap. It pays the New Deal the compliment of having done something for the worker. If the N.R.A., with its haphazard and unalterable codes drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce at will, could do anything for labor, that benefits has yet to appear. If the breakup of the united labor front in this country into a Green and a Lewis camp, which was openly fostered by the President...
Undergraduate dissatisfaction with the new parietal rules gives the University no choice in the matter. Opinion has been almost unanimous that the "double or nothing" rule represents a thoroughly haphazard and unworkable solution. The council of House Masters, meeting with President Conant, formulated the plan, and the bawling brat must be thrown into the lap of the latter immediately upon his return from England...
Notable if not definitive is Editor White's account of how a group of Kansas editors and oilmen who had grown up together ran Alf Landon's pre-convention campaign which began "all hilarious and haphazard, all country town stuff . . . an amiable, neighborly, good-natured Kansas mutual admiration society, with ribald but affectionate swipes at the old 'Budget Balancer.' " It ended at Cleveland when the same group "managed to stumble through, and, by looking wise, seemed to be dominating the situation, which was controlled largely by guess and by grab, and, by good dumb luck...
...unexpectedly and against all desire to witness one woman's agony as she underwent this "essential experience." I was speeding along a desolate stretch of road in southern California a few years ago when I saw the car ahead, the only other one in sight, slither to a haphazard stop beside the road. The driver was a woman, suddenly torn with pain. She had been driving alone into town when her time had come. Shaking with terror I jerked the cushioned seats from my car, made a bed for her in the shadow of her Ford, dumbly helped...