Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cotton. General Johnson had ordered cotton mills to cut their machine hours 25% for the next twelve weeks, until some of the 332,000,000 yards of unsold cotton goods now on hand could be disposed of. A 25% cut in machine hours meant a 25% cut in man hours and a 25% cut in wages. Unless the order were canceled Tom McMahon promised to call a strike of the United Textile Workers, promised that 300,000 men would walk out. Said he: "The issue at stake apparently is whether the workers are willing to accept a 25% wage reduction...
...social divisions. May there never be a distinction between rich man and poor man in this corner of the campus, but let the Fence-bond of friendship for your class be based simply upon 'Yale and '97'. . . Every man knows what the institution of these few rails has meant for the friendship of this College. Guard them from mutilation. Protect them from misuse...
...actually believed that Herr Goebbels meant what he said was Editor Welk of Die Grime Post, an agricultural weekly that once had a circulation of a million. Editor Welk returned from the meeting to tap out a mild little editorial headed "Mr. Minister, A Word Please" which suggested that perhaps Minister of Propaganda Goebbels might have lost touch with the public, shut in as he was by thousands of antechambers. The presses had hardly stopped printing the editorial before Editor Welk found himself in a concentration camp and his paper suppressed for three months. Only the mocking laughter...
...German, Spanish, Italian. He drifted to Europe, sang at the Scala in Milan until the War, during which he fought for the British in the West African Fron- tier Force. When he settled in Harlem in 1929 he was distressed to find that to the U. S. African music meant only Negro jazz. So he set to work on Kykunkor, singing it while a Harlem piano teacher wrote down words and music. No one attempted to score the intricate drum beats. Asadata Dafora taught the players by ear and after a recent performance, the drummers struggled to pass the lesson...
Perhaps it was not meant to take the spotlight off Henry Ford's enormous new building at Chicago's Century of Progress but such was certainly the effect of a party given by General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. on the eve of last week's Fair opening (see p. 12). To the General Motors Building he invited an army of U. S. leaders for a prophetic symposium on "Industrial Progress in the Next Century." What some of the guests saw ahead...