Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last 48 hours for the usual alibi to save everybody's face. Every plan thus far has looked toward some supervision of elections to determine who the chosen spokesmen of the workers really are. Labor gains by every such device because Government supervision of elections thus far has merely meant postponing local elections till the labor organizers are sure of a majority...
...first evidence, of course, came when the printing codes were under discussion and when it was feared that one regulation, whereby signers were to agree in advance to abide by any future regulations, meant they were in effect waving their constitutional rights. The President announced in his executive order that a man "does not consent to what he does not consent to." It was insisted that constitutional rights could not be forfeited accidentally...
...week the Mississippi Legislature moved to give Father Collins his reward. By a vote of 19 to 16 the Senate passed a bill authorizing the county sheriff to appoint him hangman at the execution of the Negroes this week. The Senator who introduced it explained that the bill was meant to apply only to the Hernando case, that he would move its repeal the day after Special Hangman Collins springs the trap...
...used to be a boxer and he would not be glared down. He smiled a disarming smile and set the musicians to work with the authority of their own Stokowski.*Before the rehearsal was half over every last one of them knew, that the little Spaniard on the podium meant business...
...automotive genius to production, leaving policies to his financial betters. Meantime an army of auditors swarmed over the Citroën ledgers. In Le Soir a realistic financial observer remarked: "It is impossible now to get any exact idea of the company's condition. ... In prosperous days, accounts meant little because increased demand and prices covered everything...