Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea has been advanced that this is legislation intended to prevent strikes and thereby prevent impeding commerce. Let me read a few lines from the Act itself: 'Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impede or diminish in .any way the right to strike.' So I think we may start with the idea that the Labor Board Act is not one to prohibit strikes...
Sued for divorce in Trenton, N. J. last week was President Peter C. Christensen of Button Corp. of America, his wife charging that he had lavished a small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains...
...late autumn of 1886, four Harvard law students who believed that the Law School had "a message for the professional world" met to map strategy for a new venture: a law review. Suggested by a young graduate of Ohio's Oberlin College named John Jay McKelvey, the idea was elaborated by his fellow students Joseph Henry Beale, Julian William Mack and John Henry Wigmore. During the Christmas recess young Mr. McKelvey went to Manhattan and sold his idea to the late great Joseph Hodges Choate, one of the foremost U. S. lawyers of the day, who became the magazine...
...only is the state of mental exaltation rare, but there are few things that can create this mood; the moments are priceless when one is left intense, immobile by the theme of a book or even the idea of a movie...
...this suggests that Hilton's characters are symbols, that the whole idea is an allegory. Conway may be the intelligent person who arrives through a philosophy of moderation and kindness at carthly happiness. His brother may represent the many who balk at progress, who disbelieve all doctrines that are new or that they cannot understand. The men who drink the toast in the end may be the majority who all have faith in some Utopia but have not yet seen...