Word: hidebound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hour. The Shoreham Contract's complete and unequivocal recognition of his union by the archfoes of organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers...
...working at European history and at the social sciences. This seems to be a logical way of trying to comprehend one's environment. At Oxford nearly all the best men are studying Greece and Rome instead of a modern civilization, and they are concentrating on Greek philosophy. Oxford looks hidebound. It is difficult to see how any one who emerges from a prolonged bout with Plato and Thucydides can be ready for "Sex" and "Labor...
...vote plurality. Even the Republicans there attributed their defeat to the disfavor of the national administration. In 1928 Kentucky was President Hoover's with 177.000 votes to spare. Last week it was lost to a Republican nominee for Governor by 71.523 votes. A spectacular overturn in a hidebound Republican district in Michigan turned the House of Representatives Democratic. Connecticut, carried by President Hoover by 44,574 votes three years ago, saw its two largest cities swing into the Democratic column. When Mr. Hoover entered the White House, his party had 56 Senators, 267 Congressmen and 30 Governors in power. Last...
...study of Latin or Greek as a requisite for the A. B. degree at Harvard is a conservative requirement for this degree that still holds sway at many Eastern colleges. Yale and Princeton, for example, are even more hidebound in demanding the full number of units in one of these languages at school; both demand further one year of college work in the Classics, but this last has at least the grace of making the student's eventual degree to some extent dependent on his college studies...
...providing this outlet for the transfer of ideas, however, is puzzling and perhaps beyond solution. It has been quite obvious that the Liberal Club of the past few years has fallen far short of a perfect forum. Its members formed just as bigoted a clique of undergraduates as the hidebound conservatives or the extreme radicals, with whose tenets the Liberal Club so often disagreed. Even more of a failure has been the Harvard Socialist Club, or whatever name it seeks to masquerade under this week...