Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Manhattan. The leaflet was designed to publicize MRA Week, which ended on Sunday with a big Citizens' Meeting in Madison Square Garden. On its face, the blurb looked like an endorsement of the doctrines of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, which in Europe have borne the label MRA since last summer (TIME, Sept...
Thus was an indelible Red label pasted on the chief pressure group for bigger WPA appropriations. It immediately put WPAdministrator Francis ("Pink") Harrington on the hottest spot he has been on since he succeeded Harry Hopkins. There was talk in the committee of proposing that no WPA money be paid to any Alliance members unless Colonel Harrington terminates his friendly relations with Alliance leaders. Colonel Harrington coolly retorted that he had noted nothing subversive about the Alliance. "I see no objection," said he, "to having a spokesman for workers discuss wages, hours and working conditions with their superiors...
Attacking half-baked liberalism, Tydings said, "Many crimes have been committed in the name of progress. There is a point beyond which economic medicine is ineffective, even when the label on the bottle is liberal...
...prospect of paying off the arrears in cash, President Dennison last week asked his stockholders to accept new preferred and common stock instead. Simultaneously he proposed a complete reshaping of capital structure, reducing good will from $1,000,000 to $1, otherwise putting new stickum on the Dennison label...
...call went out for a scuttle of coke, a picture of soldiers, a bi cycle saddle attached to the back, twelve marbles on a flat plate, a package of dried fruits, five francs in 50-centime pieces, a piece of cloth tied around the leg, a mineral-water bottle label, one hand drawn on a piece of white paper and the ability to conjugate on arrival, while standing, the imperfect subjunctive of the verb s'asseoir (to sit down).* It is interesting and profitable work for housewives, youths and the unemployed, who have the after noon to themselves...