Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor leaders were surprised by a spontaneous tide in their affairs, they did not hesitate to take it at the flood. Pressing his advantage, U. A. W.'s President Homer Martin, with John Lewis' full public backing, last week reiterated time & again his prime demand: That General Motors bargain with his union on a nation-wide basis...
...found another way of doing things which a Senator is not expected to do. Only 63 and still in the prime of legislative life, he declared his intention of retiring from the Senate, but was persuaded out of it. In 1926 he committed what was considered political suicide by campaigning against the election of Philadelphia's Boss Vare to the Senate. In 1927 he decided that he would like to quit and become Governor of Nebraska to do something for his own State. In 1928 he again committed political suicide by openly supporting Al Smith. In 1930 he again...
Behind the Dictator is the prostrate figure of Ethiopia, and behind Mr. Eden peer coyly from bushes Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, also in diaphanous costume and with cupid wings. Cries delighted II Duce in the Daily Worker's caption: "There are fairies at the bottom of my garden...
...Prime reason for sterilizing new gold supplies is to put an end to the steady rise in excess bank reserves. Last summer when the figure for excess reserves was around $3,000,000,000, Chairman Eccles boosted reserve requirements 50%, a move which reduced the total to $1,800,000,000. Since then some $500,000,000 worth of gold has flowed into the U. S., a sum which will show up as excess reserves after the year end. Before the winter is over reserve requirements will probably be upped a second time. The sterilization plan was designed to keep...
Benchley's statistics reveal "that practically nothing of consequence has been accomplished by its members in a quarter of a century. The Class has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one who later became Prime Minister. Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda. We have only one Weather Man who advocates the "frontal method" (three dimensions) over the "surface method" (two dimensions). In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...