Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the best way to undo the work of Washington, Madison and the other founding fathers is to deride as "another how!" the anxious protests of those who see their most cherished liberties about to be legislated away. The Tribune errs dangerously when it adopts even for a moment the mudslinging tactics formerly peculiar only to labor leaders. When we reflect let us remember that temporary lapses like the Tribune's may tend to become permanent and that this is no time for any loosening of the coalition which is protecting honest business from the inquisitorial activities of the National...
...Winchell, the nation's No. 1 expert on Broadway. In Washington to pick the Government's prettiest female employe, Columnist Winchell dropped in for a White House press conference, stayed 43 minutes, swapped stories with the President. Mr. Roosevelt's best story concerned his most embarrassing moment: when, as Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he set a trap for a lady friend whom he suspected of espionage. The trap was never sprung...
...took another splinter from the pile of odds and cuds and sat down again. There was no hurry. It would take them a quarter of an hour yet to get the cradle cleared. He was excited--yes, there was no denying that. Launching, like birth, is a supreme moment...
Only members of the Junior Class may vote for the 1938 nominees; men in this class will vote for six. Only Sophomores may vote in the 1939 contest and will vote for three. Unsigned ballots will be thrown out, and only men registered in these two classes at the moment are eligible to vote...
...Knudsen rose at the general session to relate G. M.'s troubles with labor and its effect upon business. Excerpt: "The Industrial Union in its present form has to depend on force in defiance of law. There are not many places in the U. S. at the moment where laws can be enforced to control the movement. The technique of the sit-down strikers is identical with that of the syndicalists of Europe. France has finally had to take a stand against them because of the dangers as a political club rather than a social defensive weapon. I feel...