Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White citizens of the U. S. South expect a Republican President, for political reasons, to treat Negroes as near-equals. That is a prime reason why they have almost always voted solidly Democratic since Reconstruction.* On the other hand, Southern voters expect a Democratic President to cooperate in keeping Negroes firmly in their social place...
When AAA went by the board last January, President Roosevelt whipped through a befuddled Congress a stopgap measure called the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (TIME, March 9). The prime purpose of that law was to restore the flow of cash benefits from Washington to the nation's farmers which the Supreme Court decision had rudely interrupted. Yet the Soil Conservation Act compelled no farmer to do anything about limiting his production. If he shifted cash crop acreage to grass, the Government would pay him something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with...
...Commission started listening in on The Telephone Company (TIME, March 30). In the past fortnight the Commission's dapper young inquisitor, Samuel Becker, has picked up the following nuggets, most of which in any comprehensive investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. could hardly be rated as more than prime gossip...
Thrice in the past year has President Charles Richard Gay of the New York Stock Exchange gathered about him a well-groomed, able staff and set forth upon goodwill missions through those large sections of the U. S. where Wall Street is seriously regarded as a prime filling station on the wide road to Hell. Implicit in most of his many speeches was the message that the New York Stock Exchange had received a new revelation of its public duty...
Turning to questions of current interest in Britain. Professor Laski explained that sanctions have not been applied against Italy because Prime Minister Baldwin's Conservative government never really intended to do so. The events at Geneva just preceding the General Election in England, when the Baldwin ministry seemed to be moving toward application of sanctions, was just a gesture to win the pacifist vote, in Laski's opinion...