Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chieftain and his 1,400,000 men, American Federation of Labor leaders still represented 2,000,000 unionists, wielded a Congressional influence which Franklin Roosevelt had no desire to antagonize, and remained bitterly hostile not only to John L. Lewis in general but to his automobile strike in particular. Questioned about the strike in a press conference, the President gave bold Mr. Lewis his answer by saying: "I have...
...Particular praise went to Soloist Ferenc Farago's fine baritone. Young Dr. Farago (32) is head of the Institute of Bacteriology at Budapest University. After graduating from the University's Medical School, he studied at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Chicago, is the only singer in the group who ever saw the U. S. before. He has been with the chorus since he was 19, never misses a rehearsal, takes...
...Harvester and Reo Motor were awarded truck contracts after the Labor Department clarified some knotty legal points. One question raised by Harvester was whether the hours provisions applied to its other operations such as farm machinery or only to its truck plants. The Labor Department held that only the particular plant making Government goods was affected. In the case of the copper companies all mine operations might be included, which was presumably the reason for their refusal to bid. Reason they finally got the business was that the law permits suspension of the rules in an "emergency," a state which...
Like her autobiography, Masks was aimed nowhere in particular but hits the shopgirl public right under the fifth rib. Even Publisher Button describes the story as "pure romance." If Masks had been published anonymously, readers could have deduced that its author had led a sheltered life but had not been sufficiently protected from far-fetched fiction of the baser sort. Rewritten into cinemantics, it might be palmed off as Art, but it would need a Garbo to complete the illusion...
...place where men may seek the truth with open minds it betrays its true character and purpose. Search for the truth means a constant endeavor to widen the boundaries of knowledge, and there is here a fatal contradiction if men are compelled to accept as final any particular social, political or other philosophy, or if restrictions are placed on their critical faculties, or if they are forbidden to state the truth as they honestly find...