Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Touching the labor situation, President Cardenas drew cheers from the legislators when, in the manner of Franklin Roosevelt's "both your houses" remark (see p. 11), he attacked recent strikes caused by political squabbles, called inter-union conflicts "unjustified," said they served to "give arms to our enemies." With a warning to American, British, oil and mining interests, Rightist sympathizers, that the revolution would proceed despite "discontent at popular conquests," the President sat down. As he did so a cameraman tumbled off the platform. Superstitious Congressmen muttered among themselves that this was a bad omen...
...returned here not to suffer from the vindictiveness of the law. Our criminal law proceeds in its enforcement from no motives of revenge, and you have been returned not for the purpose of persecution but in order that you may be prosecuted in a decent and humane manner for the crime whereof you are charged...
...such dismissals. A more constructive plan was offered by Vice President Henry E. North of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. who announced the establishment of a $30,000 co-operative fund for underwriter education through the American College of Life Underwriters. Purpose: "To organize and make available in an organized manner the information which men heretofore entering the business have had to pick up largely in an unorganized manner...
...Right," said the portly man. "You can tell a Freshman at a glance by the inexperienced manner in which he smokes his pipe, by the fifty per cent way he turns up his coat collar, and by the noise he makes with his friends in public. Right? I used to be a Freshman myself. But let me ask you another question, and that, I promise, is all. What do others at Harvard think of the Freshmen...
...Senator Schwellenbach-whose objection to the manner of the bill's passage was applauded by most of his confreres-had predicted, he found nothing wrong with the bill itself. Next day it passed without objection. The incident nonetheless remained noteworthy. It was the only serious interruption in a week which Congress spent in going over formidable legislative jumps with almost alarming ease. Major bills which were finally enacted...