Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These details casually viewed may seem little more than mere routine to a great many members of the class; even the election results may in some cases seem foreordained or even meaningless. But this "routine" organization is important. It is only necessary to hark back two years to recall one slip between the cup and the lip, due to bad management. Then the Juniors counting the returns were at fault. But a hitch at any point is enough to disrupt and discredit he whole system of Senior Elections. The dissension, the damaged feelings; the howls of protest of two years...
...type of holding company then blossoming in utilities and later exemplified in railroading by the Van Sweringen companies, Mr. Hoxsey had described in his memorandum as "necessarily bad ... a mere exploitation of what may be termed the surplus earnings of the operating companies during periods of prosperity ... a temptation to rape the subsidiaries for the benefit of the holding company." Senator Wheeler read aloud Mr. Hoxsey's reasons for the indictment of such companies: "Financially and economically, because a small and normal variation in the rate of return on the property of the operating subsidiaries makes a large...
...photographer made himself much too arty. Not content with mere technical perfection, he tried to make a lot of psychological double exposures, which turn out to be what most double exposures are, mistakes. But despite all this censure, it is really quite possible to overlook the flaws and enjoy the picture for its better dialogue and acting...
...industrial racketeers. The technique of industrial racketeering, he has discovered, is simple, standardized. A racketeer gets control of a union, or a union leader turns racketeer. In such highly-organized industries as New York City's, a strike is a paralyzing weapon. After a few samples, the mere threat of strike is usually enough to keep businessmen in line. The racketeer employs sluggings, bombings, window-smashings as supplementary discipline. But he shrinks from murder, resorts to an occasional killing only to prove that he means business. Hand in glove with the corrupt labor union usually works a "trade association...
...wanted only to protect Manchukuo from Communist penetration. At these words, venerable Kunimatsu Hamada, a leader of the Seiyukai (minority party), rose to his feet, hurled with tacit approval of the majority party (the Minseito) furious accusations that the Army leaders aim at Fascism, that the Cabinet are "mere Army puppets!" To retort, up jumped fiery War Minister Count Terauchi. Amid civilian hoots and catcalls he said...