Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boards : i) to investigate facts of disputes growing out of the collective bargaining clause of the Recovery Act; 2) to hold employe elections "when it shall appear in the public interest"; 3) to subpoena documents and witnesses; 4) to issue orders and regulations, disobedience of which would subject any person to a $1,000 fine or a year in jail. Day before the steel strike was due to break and Congress to adjourn, the measure was introduced in House and Senate. Only serious opposition came from Progressives who wanted the Wagner bill. They were placated by a declaration that...
...Government is determined that no person or group of persons shall usurp the functions of the State," declared Sir John, referring to the Mosley blackshirts who seized hecklers at Olympia with policemanly vigor and threw them outside to be arrested by Sir John's Bobbies. Later he said: "The Government has decided that alterations in the law shall be made to give uniformed policemen the right to attend any meeting at which they have reason to anticipate disorder...
There are three ways in which you can measure the success of these aspirants: first of all, their financial status; secondly, their personal happiness; and thirdly, their constructive accomplishment. While a combination of all three is eminently satisfactory, it is a sad commentary that the least important one, financial, is the last one to be discarded. The last two prove to lie closely related, for real happiness seems to come through the achievement of something worthwhile; happiness by itself is liable to leave a man with rather an empty feeling by the time he is about fifty. Therefore, the wisest...
...value of each ticket varies with how its horse finishes the race : holders of tickets on the horses finishing first, second and third win $150,000, $75,000 and $50.000 each, respectively; ticket-holders on the remaining 68 horses entered get $2.600 each on a $2.50 investment. A person holding a ticket on Colombo last week could keep it on the chance that Colombo would win the top prize for him or he could sell it. in full or in part, for a sum based on the bookmaker's odds against Colombo's winning...
...biggest firm of racetrack book makers in the world is Douglas Stuart Ltd., which employs 400 clerks in its entirely legal offices at Stuart House, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Douglas Stuart, whose motto is "Duggie Never Owes" is not a person but a syndicate. Busiest member of the syndicate is breezy, dapper, dark-haired Sidney Freeman, who once worked with Novelist Edgar Wallace on a South African newspaper, and who would "rather trust an English bricklayer than a foreign nobleman," in the matter of bets. For the last three years. Bookmaker Freeman has been coming...