Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hush along the industrial front was almost unearthly. Could it be that everyone was just hard at work...
Congress, in fact, was the reason for the hush...
Unwise to Accept. "The comparative peace which has prevailed since October 1946," he said, "should not mislead us into thinking that the causes of strikes have been dissipated and that we are now on the threshold of industrial quiet and harmony." The chief reason for the great hush, he thought, was the November election results. "The heart of the problem is [still] the rise of a private institution, the national union, which has the power to close up the country's basic industries . . . impose on the country arbitrary, monopolistic economic decisions...
...professor was heralded with a hush...
...center of this hush-hush operation is a system of scaled nominations presented to the Governing Board. Nominations apparently can be made by anyone connected with the higher echelons of the University. Accustomed more to making recommendations on financial policy, it may be suspected that the Governing Board either lets "political" expediency instead of philosophical objectives guide its choice, or that it allows itself to be influenced by a single adviser. The peculiar prominence attached to the awarding of honorary degrees demands that the next selections be severely limited in number, and that they be screened by a nominating committee...