Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair trade" and labor "standards." Solicitor General Stanley Reed, making his maiden appearance as such before the Court, explained: "The only standard is what industry considers unfair, plus the judgment of the President as to whether they are fair trade provisions." Next day Counsel Richberg took over the ordeal, added that fair trade standards were established in accordance with "the common law" and with those standards which the industries "recognized before codes were adopted...
Last week as seamy-faced Sir Herbert faced his annual stockholders' meeting & ordeal, up popped that spruce iron tycoon, the Earl of Dudley, to chirp: "Stockholders, I appeal to you to protect your Chairman against sniping. The sooner the Government and everyone else realizes that Vickers is a business and not a philanthropic institution the better...
...ORDEAL BY FIRE-Fletcher Pratt- Smith & Haas...
Author Pratt subtitles his book "an informal history." Written with a colloquial enthusiasm that will not recommend it to more academic historians, Ordeal by Fire has no theory to grind, parades its swift narrative of the war years in a series of graphic scenes. It opens in the dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes...
...that it's over, I don't think I'll work for either one of them again," said she. "It has been a terrible ordeal. Since October I have been like a pot boiling over. I think I shall take a week's holiday before I look for another...