Word: phalanxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gasoline, motor cars, machinery, motion picture films was announced. Syndical labor laws were ordered written, with labor unions being organized on the approved Fascist model. Strikes will be outlawed, the unions will be controlled by the Government. New contracts will be written for tenant farming, and the Spanish Phalanx's program for redistribution of some large estates will be carried...
...than there is a phalanx of talent returning in events not touched by graduation: Torby Macdonald in the 220; Gene Clark, Dave Simboll, and Bob Nichols in the two-mile; Don Donahue, Maze Fernald, and Roger Schafer in the hurdles; Partlow in the broad jump; Marshall MacIsaac and Steve Madey in the vault; Downing and Howle Mendel in the shot and Nat Heard in the discus; and Big Bill Shallow in the hammer throw...
...money (TIME, April 3). But when the farm bill came to a vote, the city men did not make good. New York's radical Vito Marcantonio and Chicago's old Adolph Sabath kept back their forces, without which the farm Democrats were powerless against a strong Republican phalanx. The parity payments perished...
Most skillful is his use of symbols: in a story about the birth of a boy, fishermen launch a boat on the night sea; in a story set in conquered territory, a farmer carefully yokes his oxen; when the sirocco blows, a well-organized phalanx of shore-folk wade into the heavy sea to save men who are washed overboard in landing their boats...
...Peabody knows everything that the boys do, and nothing is done without his permission. Furthermore, we do not have that kind of an attitude. There is no phalanx of problem children and no overnourished, overclad boys at Groton. Most of the boys don't have a town and a country house...