Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the old battle of Lamarckism v. Natural Selection has not yet finally cleared. Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited, that some profit from experience can be passed on to succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory. Natural Selection holds that accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest. Lamarckism is in general disrepute for the simple reason that evidence for it is scanty and dubious. The grosser physical aspects of it have long been disproved, notably by the classic experiment of Weismann...
...happen to know about this incident because I heard the details firsthand from my aunt, Mrs. H. Allari, who was Harry Bridges' neighbor for several years. She lived at No. 2840 Pine Street, San Francisco, on the left side of the "five-room flat to a five-room house" from which the Bridges are moving next week...
...there may be "50 million movie-going males" from 15 to 65 in this country, and I am not going to be the one to say this is a lie. But I happen to be one of them, and my wife wants to know what is all this about Mae West and me. Now I have never seen one of her moving pictures. Honest and cross my heart. I have told my wife this, too, but she just wags her head in a kind of "You're not kiddin' me, Brother" fashion and says she knows what...
...always been bitter, sometimes bloody. Ever since last May, when energetic little Sidney Hillman, able, Lithuanian-born chief of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving mills in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England, he chose to do so. When 40,000 of the 60,000 U. S. silk & rayon workers obeyed his orders, they...
...North Dakota Senator trumpeted: "If a great Government is going to tolerate administration by a board or a bureau which in turn is going to tolerate practices of that kind, the hour is not far off when Americans are going to be reminded that 'it can happen here.' " Brought down to more relevant ground by Senator Wagner, Senator Nye conceded that he had never heard an employer deny that NLRB elections, at least, were "absolutely fair and impartial...