Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Packinghouses, utilities, lumbering, shoes, aircraft, business offices. In these and many another, the same story generally holds good: C. I. O. in its first burst of organization in 1936-37 did the spadework; A. F. of L. came in later, organizing the same industries and even the same shops where C. I. O. had won Labor's first important gains...
Three days later the House sat through 14 hours of tumultuous debate. At 1 a. m. it passed and sent to the Senate a measure designed to make Relief in 1940 quite different from previous years. > Total money voted...
Stimson offered Britain U. S. collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort...
...Later, after pondering Lady Astor's description of Jura, separated from the mainland by 25 miles of racing tides, on which not even agriculturally minded Lord Astor could raise sheep profitably, Davey welshed completely on his bet, asked: "What would I do with a farm? This is not a case of Davey Kirkwood or any other man, for that matter, going to farm on Lady Astor's island. I want the Government to do something...
...guards lead away some of his companions to be executed, waited for his own turn to come. It never did. Instead "a very beautiful young lady, wrapped in furs" guided Herr Reinhardt and cell mates to two waiting limousines, sped them to a hideout, kept them supplied with food. Later the Consul learned that his rescuer was a Jewish girl friend of late potent Bolshevik Grigory Zinoviev (né Radomyslsky, purged August...