Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced me that the remedy he brings forward is the correct one." In suave English political life such words are a slap in the face, and friends of Mr. Chamberlain were in mounting fear last week lest he take the same hobnailed line as Prime Minister, an English job in which suavity is requisite...
...leading manufacturers of office equipment and typewriters," refused to bargain with his unionized employes, they went on strike last May in six of his plants. Soon rugged Mr. Rand was gleefully having described in a bulletin of the National Association of Manufacturers his "Mohawk Valley formula" for breaking strikes. Prime ingredient of the formula was demoralization of strikers and winning of public sympathy by back-to-work movements "operated by a puppet association of so-called 'loyal employes' secretly organized by the employer." Other features included branding of strike leaders as "agitators," constant propaganda in news and advertisements...
...reasons block the way to a P.B.H. triumvirate that would rule actively and well. It is not unfair to say that the president has tended to be a figurehead, while his prime minister, the graduate secretary, has held the reins. From such a revelation it must not be inferred that the president is the graduate secretary's tool; the emptiness of his offices is often because another activity has occupied most of his attention. There is danger, however, that the president will be a china doll unless he drop outside attachments and concentrate his time in P.B.H. by accepting such...
...Geneva partisans of the League are growing extremely anxious lest His Majesty's Government have seriously in mind the project of virtually scrapping the League in the guise of "reforming" it, as favored by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, reputed future Prime Minister. In League Secretariat circles everyone believes Mr. Chamberlain wants to have eliminated from the League Covenant its three most vital articles: Article X under which League States guarantee each other's territorial integrity and independence; Article XVI under which Sanctions are adopted against an aggressor; and Article XIX in which provision is made...
Though Flagstad is the Metropolitan's prime drawing card, its German wing- with Rethberg, Lehmann, Melchior, Schorr, List-was the world's finest even before her arrival. When Edward Johnson became general manager, he knew better than to tamper with the wing that artistically and box-officially is his best. The Italian and French wings were in less happy state, and Johnson combed Europe last summer engaging fresh singers...