Word: lashings
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...labor disputes. No move could be made until the Secretary of Labor had confessed that the Department's Conciliation Service was stumped. After that, the board was instructed to: 1) try to negotiate agreements; 2) "afford means for voluntary arbitration"; 3) make public "findings of fact." The only lash the board had with which to drive stubborn parties into a settlement was publicity. Its best chance of making a good record seemed to depend on the calibre of its members. Most observers applauded Mr. Roosevelt's selections...
...Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie observed that the building of the pyramids must have looked like this. But in Chiang Kai-shek's China there was no slave driver with a lash. The job was bossed by a Chinese civil engineer (a graduate of the University of Illinois) who directed the 75,000 by blowing a whistle...
Protestant liberalism is not alone in feeling the lash of its former leader. He also makes out a vigorous case against Catholicism, denounces Marxism as the false religion of the lower classes, Freudianism as the false religion of the upper crust, and Nietzschean fascism as the false religion of the lower middle classes...
Disagreeing with the policies of the American Student Union because of its Communistic tendencies and its refusal to accept the defense program, Joseph Lash, Secretary of the International Student Service, advocated the foundation of a new student league in a speech last night in the Kirkland House Common Room...
During the ensuring discussion, officers and members of the Student Defense League and the Harvard Liberal Union considered a possible merger of their groups to form the nucleus of the unit proposed by Lash and, although no decision was reached, both groups seemed favorably inclined...