Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tampa, Fla. next week meets the American Federation of Labor to decide, by ratifying or rejecting the Executive Council's suspension of John Lewis' United Mine Workers and its C. I. 0. allies (TIME, Aug. 17), whether organized Labor shall be fatefully split into two rival factions. Prime movers for peace have been two C. I. O. leaders David Dubinsky of International Ladies' Garment Workers and Max Zaritsky of United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers. At their instance, the A. F. of L. Executive Council last month appointed a committee of three to meet with...
Least inclined of all to ''shoot Santa Claus" were the Canadian Government of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who have been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
...that of the London Morning Post, an extreme Conservative organ. It began by observing with satisfaction that the British Conservative Party has in fact introduced some measures more radical than most thus far sponsored by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Admitting the President to the generous Santa Claus fraternity of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the Morning Post declared, "When all allowances are made, Roosevelt may justly claim to have introduced a new principle of responsibility for individual welfare into American government and to have won widespread acceptance...
...First Lord of the British Admiralty, dynamic Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, continued last week his series of public speeches, which are proving so popular in the United Kingdom as to build him up handsomely as a candidate to succeed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Sir Samuel has already cheered Navy-loving Britons by telling them that the battleplane has by no means yet supplanted the battleship. Last week he drew thunderous London cheers with a bristling disparagement of both Fascism and Communism...
...student for intelligent action. With this as his central theme he clarifies the proper function of a university in the scheme of a man's whole education. A university is equipped only to pursue the fundamental truths and no more--to attempt anything else is to cripple its prime purpose. Taking wisdom as the result of both intellectual training and experience, Dr. Hutchins insists, contrary to the existing curricula of most colleges, that the university can supply only the former. There is no substitute for experience; every business has its own idiosyncrasies, its own methods its own peculiarities. Universities today...