Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. Conciliator James F. Dewey with the help of Ford's Harry Bennett, whose company is a Briggs customer, got hitherto stubborn Briggs executives into a more cooperative frame of mind. Able, amiable Mr. Dewey then succeeded in settling most of the specific grievances which had caused the strike...
...along with WPA, USHA and several other agencies, into a new Federal Works Agency (effective July 1). Not the Starnes bill, but a PWA allotment of similar size out of the money it was going to vote for WPA, was what seemed to be in the subcommittee's mind. Two reasons, besides Mr. Roosevelt's renewed urge to "invest" in public works, guided the subcommittee in this direction: discovery of items in WPA's proposed budget (the first ever submitted to Congress in itemized form) which could be shaved or excised; uneasiness about the efficiency...
...after the St. Louis left Hamburg. He announced that they would be permitted to land temporarily on the Isle of Pines, ancient pirate hideout 50 miles south of Cuba. Next day, the refugees having failed to get the financial guarantees that President Laredo Bru had demanded, he changed his mind, again prohibited them from landing...
...Dardanelles got under way too slowly. Britain's Sir Douglas Haig threw away a chance for a decisive breakthrough when he allowed the new invention of the tank to appear on the western front prematurely, without adequate support, in numbers far too small to be effective. If Brilliant Mind Winston Churchill and Brilliant Mind Lloyd George, whose ideas were squelched by the military men, had had full scope in 1914-18, the War might have taken a different course. And if Germany's Brilliant Mind Schlieffen had been alive to prevent the weakening of the right wing...
Last week, Dr. Anders was indicted for illegally "selling" Barrick some 10,000 half-grain morphine tablets in the past two years. No man to preserve a "damned deferential silence," he made a public case out of his indictment, spoke his mind to Philadelphia reporters. Said...