Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collective bargaining requirement of the law and at the same time to keep their plants non-union the motor makers got this provision into their approved code: ''Employers in the industry may exercise their right to select, retain or advance employes on the basis of individual merit, without regard to their membership or nonmembership in any organization." Wrathfully organized labor pointed out that "merit" would be made a cloak behind which manufacturers would discharge union workers. NRA's Labor Advisory Board reluctantly accepted the stipulation, warned that it was no precedent. But other non-union code makers...
...also explains their disdain of New York Theatre critics. No play, or movie either, ever drew full houses for more than two or three nights on an outside reputation alone. Boston is polite but demands to be shown. Producers invariably face the problem of proving the merit of their production all over again. Boston audiences are discriminating; they have their favorites. Most of all, however, they like what they like...
...only be awarded for service in action, which means: 1) services under fire: 2) services in connection with air raids, bombardments, or other enemy action which at the time produces conditions equivalent to services in actual combat. Formerly the D.S.O. could be won for an act of great military merit not necessarily performed in the presence of the enemy...
...been trying to start a British Sweepstake for charity which would evade the United Kingdom's strict law against lotteries. Originally ten-shilling tickets were to have been sold to anyone who cared to take a purely nominal "test of skill" by arranging "in order of artistic merit" the racing colors of King George and three other prominent turfmen.* After 9,000,000 tickets had been printed and many sold, Scotland Yard suddenly intervened. Stern Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour held the scheme to be a lottery. His Grace the Duke of Atholl had to think fast...
...people to his support but even the recalcitrant press. The New York Herald-Tribune, which last fall was accustomed to give Hoover's unimportant speeches five-column headlines and deliberately under-rate one of Roosevelt's key messages, now tucks away in an unimportant position, accusations of some merit against the administration coming from Representative Bnell (R.) Undoubtedly the President has realized what a tremendous asset the press can be and has organized and directed his publicity better than any man who ever occupied the White House. Four years ago newspapers, which must necessarily survive on the number of complaints...