Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week organized labor in the U. S. suddenly massed in a concerted attack on a major Administration enactment. Conservative A. F. of L., liberal C. I. O., radical Workers Alliance all rose up in arms against the 13O-hour provision of the new Relief act. They explained it was a strike against Congress, a belated lobby against a new law, but the fact remained that the 130-hour rule was written into the act at the express request of President Roosevelt's new WPAdministrator, Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. And Franklin Roosevelt was on record, since as early...
...peace in Europe hangs on the calculations and miscalculations of a few men in power, and there is a major unknown in their calculations: In case of war can they or can their enemies rely on the economic resources of the U. S.? If one of the men in power is tempted to take a bad gamble on that question, the U. S. may be indirectly responsible for launching a World...
...February 1936, the temporary neutrality law was extended with two major changes. Belligerents were denied the privilege of floating loans in the U. S. and exceptions were made for wars in Latin America. The Italians, undisturbed, destroyed the Ethiopians, and the U. S. was never sucked into the holocaust...
...when it decided Manchuria was ripe for plucking, it manufactured the "Mukden Incident" and marched in from Korea, much to the surprise of the Tokyo Government. In Manchukuo it runs the whole show, bossing the Government of Emperor Kang Teh (Henry Pu Yi) and owning or controlling every major industry. Many Kwantung officers deplore the Japanese invasion of western China, believe that the destruction of the Russian menace that hangs forever over Japan's head should be the most important item on the Japanese agenda...
...world. Last week at that famed little spot 30 miles from London, where the Thames creeps between chalk hills, 50,000 gaily decked Britons turned out for the four-day regatta. With polite murmurs of "well rowed!", they watched U. S. oarsmen make a clean sweep of the three major races: the Grand Challenge Cup (Harvard's varsity crew), the Thames Challenge Cup (Tabor Academy of Marion, Mass.), and the Diamond Sculls (Joe Burk of Bridgeboro...