Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Government has strengthened its arm, "Labor's contribution . . . must be tolerance and fairness. . . . Labor must fully realize that under our economic system, businessmen have to make money to hire workers." Secretary Hopkins revived a report current in January but then disavowed by him: that among his major assignments is to do the job left undone by Secretary of Labor Perkins-get A. F. of L. and C.I.O. to bury the hatchet. "Business," said Business' new servant, "finds it difficult to progress in face of a divided labor front...
...gone forever was Guam. It would come up again in the Senate and perhaps in other defense bills. From the Navy's point of view a major catastrophe was that in the excitement, authorization of its submarine requirements in the Pacific had been forgotten...
After Poland's declaration of independence in 1918, young Beck became a captain, then a major, in the new Polish Army. He was one of the first selected by Marshal Pilsudski for the new Polish Military Staff College. In the war with Soviet Russia in 1920, when Soviet forces under the late Marshal Mikhail Tukhachavsky pursued the Polish Army to the gates of Warsaw, the young officer was first a colonel of horse artillery, then commander on the Lithuanian-White Russian frontier. Later he became military attache in Paris. That period in Colonel Beck's career was ended...
...Lord Halifax reminded the Lords of one of the "most impressive" passages in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, in which the Führer berated old Imperial Germany for underrating British strength.* In an even plainer warning the Foreign Secretary referred to stop signs on British highways: "HALT! MAJOR ROAD AHEAD!" and implied that those nations that were crossing "major roads" without "halting" might soon find themselves confronted with a husky international policeman in the person of John Bull...
...lioopmen, who have had a harder time of it than any of the other major sport teams, are getting ready to take on somebody just about their size in the Elis of Yale, present cellar occupants in the E.I.L. After a season of competition with the giants in the League, the hopeful Feslermen are ready to do some winning on their own hook. Their hopes are pinned on a revised lineup which may include diminutive Chet Legg in a starting role...