Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impending struggle, victory for Green & allies would mean that organized Labor was to remain split in a hundred quarreling groups, patterned on a vanished industrial structure and excluding from its ranks the great mass of workers in the nation's industries. Victory for Lewis & allies would open the way for organized Labor to adapt itself to the times, fulfill its enormous potentialities. Conceivably neither side would win, in which case Labor would probably destroy itself...
...Hitler crushed German trade unionism, annual congresses of the International Federation of Trade Unions have been morose affairs. In London last week I.F.T.U. delegates from 22 countries convened again with smiles. They told each other that the Communist-Socialist "united front" victories at the polls in Spain and France mean that "Fascism is on the wane," despite Benito Mussolini's being on the crest...
...However, serene Stanley Baldwin went on: "A man for whom I have profound admiration, Abraham Lincoln . . . once observed- for he was subject in his lifetime to no less criticism than I am, and he minded just about as much-'I do the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing it until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything, and if the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing that I was right would make no difference.' And that...
...that the girl who wishes to dance is self-motivated. She knows that she must have strong, sensitive feet; that her body balance must be so perfected that she can stand, move, change direction or position at any time with poise and ease; that her readiness for movement must mean control and decision rather than nervous anticipation. Sagging abdominal muscles, rigid or weak backs have no place in a dancer's body...
Under the present margin ruling, an account becomes restricted when the customer's equity amounts to less than 55% of the market value of all securities held. Restriction does not mean that the customer has to put up more money. Margin calls are only caused by the Stock Exchange's private requirements, which are lower than the Government's. But restriction does mean that a customer may not withdraw either cash or securities until his equity is again built up to 55%. He may substitute one stock for another on a dollar-for-dollar basis...