Word: organism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally panicky but less picturesque than M. Chéron, England's Daily Mail, organ of Red-baiting Viscount Rothermere, declared that Soviet lumber was being offered "on the quiet" in London last week for $55.20 per "standard" (a standard equals 200 board feet; a board foot is a piece of lumber one foot square, one inch thick), a terrific cut under the London basic price of $65.25. Charging that a deal at this Red cut price had already been made by London's Central Softwood Buying Corp. Ltd. the Daily Mail moaned: "This will depress the value...
...speakers will include A. J. Muste, Dean of Brookwood Labor College; Elmer A. Carter, Editor of Opportunity, official organ of the National Urban League, a Negro organization devoted to the advancement of the colored race: and Louis F. Budenz, Leader of the Kenosha and Nazareth Strikes and Executive, Secretary of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...
...Council adopted the League Mandates Commission report censuring Great Britain for failure to take more effective steps to check the Palestine massacres of last year (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929 et seq.). This was the first instance in which a Great Power has ever submitted to direct censure from an organ of the League...
...United States' imperialistic policy registers a new success," gloomed Il Lavoro Fascisti, organ of potent labor syndicates. "It was necessary for the United States to remove the only man [ex-Presi- dent Hipólito Irigoyen of Argentina] in the South American republics who was unwilling to submit to a policy of dominion by the great stellar republic...
London was as worried as Washington was relieved. El Hombre signed with Viscount D'Abernon in Buenos Aires last year a $38,880,000 mutual trade agreement highly advantageous to Britain, distinctly menacing to U. S. trade. Does that still stand? Worried, the London Daily Herald, organ of James Ramsay MacDonald, called up General Uriburu to ask. Over a radio telephone span of 7,000 miles the General answered slowly, loudly in English...