Word: labelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Johnson's ubiquitous assistant, Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, had been in Manhattan last week stitching an NRA label on an $800 blue fox scarf to signalize the codification of the fur industry when the story broke that her brother-in-law had a $6,800 NRA job in Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with...
Next move was an organized Nazi drive to cheer Germans up and make them forget the blood bath. Every newspaper seller was made to wear a label on his hat reading Gute Laune ("Good Cheer"). Restaurant bands and radio orchestras were commanded to play nothing but lively music and to play it loud...
...spite of the most securely tied labels, express company officials state that once in a millenium a piece of express may lose its label, an thereby become automatically stranded, unless the sender has taken the precaution of pasting his name on the inside. The express company urges this final precaution to insure safe and expeditious handling...
...waiting until Congress adjourns before broadcasting a nationwide exposition of his intentions and purposes suggested that use of his great tool might be temporarily postponed. But last week there was evidence that, consciously or unconsciously, the President was already leading his Administration temporarily toward the Right and disowning the label of radicalism which opponents have attached to his policies...
...object to the change in management, but I do consider it unfair to the former student managers to label them as inefficient when the charge does not seem to be substantiated. R. T. Sharpe...