Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of monopoly has meant the ownership of labor as a commodity. If labor is to be a commodity in the United States, in the final analysis it means that we shall become a nation of boarding houses instead of a nation of homes...
...Hello, you yellow ." Familiar with crude Wedemar humor, I attempted to pass off remark with ''Hello, Lou!" He repeated salutation and I stood up, drew him aside and said, "Lou, do you mean that, or are you kidding?" He assured me, with another offensive remark, that he meant it. I led him outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election. Verify by Rainbow Room attendants who picked up Wedemar and put him in elevator. I returned to table, made brief speech...
...such a small place that what goes on quickly reaches the ears of everyone who matters without benefit of newspapers. There was no need last week to advertise that No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale. Still less need to explain this little fact's large significance. It meant that esteemed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who in his lovable way makes from time to time such disastrous bumbles, had decided to call back into the cabinet "The Man Who Was Right...
...repeal of numerous decree laws displeasing to the Socialists and Communists which were enacted under former Premier Pierre Laval (TIME, Dec. 16); 9) political amnesty and finally, 10) reform of the statutes of the Bank of France "to guarantee the preponderance of national interests in its managements." This last meant on its face that the famed "200 Families" who have long been accused of dominating France largely through control of its central bank and immensely complicated interlocking directorates are now to be scotched. Very many of them are Jews. They seemed last week to be the least worried...
...would be in the public interest only "if it is in the public interest for the Government to abet the robbery of its citizens." He added that he would not put it past the Government to do just that. A Senator asked if he really meant what he said...