Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most controversial of the new French labor laws enacted two years ago by Socialist Léon Blum's Popular Front Government was a rigid 40-hour working week. To millions of French workers this meant less work, a general five-day week. To the French employer the law was anathema. To hundreds of thousands of tourists the law meant that banks would be closed all day Saturdays, that big Paris stores would not open Mondays...
...President Cárdenas, these assurances brought happiness. To neutral foreigners, the wholesale pledge of loyalty from previously doubtful supporters meant simply that the ill-timed, provoked revolt of Boss Cedillo, until recently political boss of San Luis Potosí State, had little chance of success, was already crumbling...
...Rising Sun flag floated last week over still burning, partially destroyed Suchow, strategic railroad junction of Central China. Japanese trucks, tanks, soldiers were in possession of the streets. To the Mikado's men the capture of Suchow meant the end of a five-months-old, bitterly waged campaign and the beginning of a new offensive toward another junction city, Chengchow, west of Suchow where the Lunghai and the Peking-Hankow Railways meet. The Japanese were obviously beginning a great new encircling movement under the direction of the North China Commander-in-Chief General Count Juichi Terauchi, who flew down...
...have rejected the idea of a "Popular Front" to oppose Prime Minister Chamberlain, the two parties fortunately managed to put but one candidate in the field. Last week anti-Chamberlain factions bewailed the fact that two Opposition candidates had split the Aylesbury field, but a united front would have meant little change in the result. The Conservative Party has long had the Aylesbury constituency under control...
...long ago as 1934. National Power, an Electric Bond & Share affiliate, agreed to sell its Knoxville subsidiary, Tennessee Public Service Co. But fixing the price was no simple matter. Mr. Mynatt's first offer was $5,250,000; National Power turned it down. But Mr. Mynatt meant business. With a $3,225,000 bond issue and a PWTA loan, he started building a municipal power plant. National Power accepted the next offer-$6,000,000; Mr. Mynatt promptly stopped work on his plant. This time National Power's preferred stockholders thought the price was too low. Mr. Mynatt...