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Word: lead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under those circumstances, what would you expect the President, as the lead er and spokesman of his party to do? ... He is merely saying ... 'If you be lieve in the Administration, do not send these men back.' ... I know the President. . . . Adulation has not made him arrogant, defeat has not made him timid. What we have to decide is whether ... we want to abdicate the stronghold of Democracy or to fight for it. And I think we, too, have 'only just begun to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Parliament has legalized all such picketing as does not 1) block traffic, 2) intimidate non-strikers, 3) lead to a breach of the peace. Result: "violence on the part of the workers, and provocative tactics on the part of the employers, have not for a long time played any significant part in industrial disturbances." C, British trade unions cannot incorporate but they may register, which gains them continuity of being and certain tax exemptions; or they can get a certificate, which gains no tax exemptions but proves title to a union's legal immunities for striking. Neither registration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: How Britain Does It | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...fact that the fissures all over the earth (such as occur in mountain building) constantly repeat their openings and closings. Last advice of Astronomer Brown was the suggestion that sensitive instruments be set up near large fissures to measure the rate of their changes. Exact measurements might then lead to some predictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earth-Pulse | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Bauhaus men, Ludwig Hilberseimer, expert on city planning, and Walter Peterhans, technician in photography. Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design. As to what is expected of them: "[This educational method] would serve no purpose," says Mies van der Rohe, "unless ... it were to lead without fail to a clear and un equivocal spiritual orientation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Armour's Architect | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Following the Roosevelt lead and splitting the nation's consumer incomes into thirds, Dr. Kneeland found that the 13,000,000 families and individuals in the lower third received under $780 a year, were not a distinct or unusual social group but included all types of consumers in all sorts of communities. Fully 70% of them were not getting any form of relief, although their average income was$471 a year. The middle third of 13,000,000 averaged $1,076; the top third, just under $3,000-but this was a meaningless figure because of the tremendous range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: $471 a Year | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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