Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington to discuss his labor troubles with her. A Rand vice president promptly telegraphed that Mr. Rand would be glad to oblige. Meantime this week the National Labor Relations Board concluded its Rand investigation with a blistering 50,000-word report. Flaying Mr. Rand for "cold, deliberate ruthless-ness" and "wholesale violations" of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, it ordered him to reinstate 4,000 striking employes, bargain exclusively with their union in the six struck plants...
...beauty, but she and Teddy were ever so distressed and annoyed when they were held one year by the Italian border customs officials. Those sillies thought M and Teddy were smugglers, and filled with jewels. M was positively haughty and finally got their release. . . . But now, this abdication busi ness. Teddy doesn't think much about that or anything, M, though, says, 'Kings do things...
...journalistic reticence was first broken in 1929 when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch specifically mentioned syphilis in a report of a St. Louis meeting of the Na tional Society for the Prevention of Blind ness. Last year breaks in the taboo began appearing far & wide. The Chicago Tribune published three full-page articles on syphilis in its Sunday editions. In New York, the News (circulation 1,629,000), put on a campaign to publicize syphilis with news stories, editorials, cartoons, has sold 16,054 reprints at 5? each. The more conservative New York Herald Tribune and New York Times began...
This piece of elephantine German clever ness came to naught when pious little Chancellor Schuschnigg never did show up on the station platform and disgruntled General Goring climbed into his sleeping car berth grunting curses at von Papen's scheme. Unknown to the Germans and as a complete surprise to most Austrians, Dr. Schuschnigg was engaged in seizing supreme power for himself and his following of Catholic bigwigs by a drastic Cabinet decree in effect making the Chancellor a Dictator. He was able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight...
...volumes of them under the name of 0. Henry, are apt to have a faintly dated air. The work of an amazingly prolific popular writer who had few literary pretensions and fewer literary ambitions, their in variable surprise endings have grown less surprising with the years, and the narrow ness of their range and the monotony of their mood have grown more conspicuous...