Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were at last coming to grips in the internecine war foreshadowed by last summer's historic split. But while a united C. I. O. drove forward under Leader Lewis' command, A. F. of L.'s scattered armies seemed headed for certain brawls among themselves. Prime reason for the Labor split was John Lewis' threatened industrial-union encroachment on A. F. of L.'s jealously guarded craft union preserves. Yet last week, in a panicky rush to head off C. I. O., many an A. F. of L. union was bursting its craft boundaries, adopting...
...Student Council has not stopped short. It has one on to investigate the problems to which the dismissal of the two economists inevitably leads. Does the present policy of the University over-emphasize research at the expense of teaching, and does the College cut off men in their prime whose teaching capacities are admittedly of the highest caliber and promise? Does the University adapt departmental budgets to meet the shifts in demand for various fields that occur from time to time? Is the system of hiring and firing really keeping at Harvard the most promising men, or is talent thrown...
STRIKING the public eye in one of its most rigidly Puritanical periods, the diary of Maric Bashkirtseff created a sensation in Victorian England from Prime Minister Gladstone down to the rank and file of commoners who read it with relish. The diary was so popular that it was almost immediately translated into several languages, and it became synonymous with the appreciation of complete and candid self-revelation...
...miracle of persuasion," to which dignitaries of His Majesty's Government looked this week to bulwark the prestige of Stanley Baldwin on the eve of his slated retirement from the post of Prime Minister next month, must now be worked by Viceroy the Marquess of Linlithgow, and great should be His Excellency's reward for quick success...
...Ottawa the Dominion House of Commons resoundingly cheered Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who has pledged on behalf of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, a lifelong Liberal, that the "entire resources" of the Dominion Government, including the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will be used to get any persons who foment a sit-down in Canada...