Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impatience. Frankfurter started for the elevator. "You can't go up like that," the others objected. The lumberjacks, they warned him, were in a hostile mood, suspicious of the government's efforts at mediation. Frankfurter's appearance in any such capitalist regalia as a dinner jacket would ruin all prospect of settlement. "Nonsense," Frankfurter replied and went to meet the strikers. While his associates looked on apprehensively, he held the conference, gradually succeeded in breaking down the antagonism of the strikers. When the meeting broke up substantial progress had been made...
...whole it is thought that the squad is more experienced and a brighter prospect than usual. The schedule for the season is made up of ten games which are better spaced than in previous years. The Varsity is keeping only three full lines for the games but a fourth line practices with them and plays with the Jayvees. Two defense men are also classed in this half-way position...
...Bulgaria, France and her "Little Entente" Allies have been working to counteract Il Duce's supposed influence on the Bulgarian Court. Both Little Entente kings-Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia-have been courting Boris. A "Three-Kings Conference" of Boris, Carol and Alexander is in prospect at Sofia on Jan. 31, the day after Boris's next birthday. Last week the Tsar of the Bulgars took his Italian-born Tsaritsa to Jugoslavia to break a slava cake. Fifty years of Balkan bitterness and two wars were supposed to have been blotted out as Tsar Boris...
...founder, Lew Hahn (TIME, Aug. 21), last week parted with Paul Quattlander, its president since 1931. He pointed out in his third letter of resignation that the profit & loss account of Hahn Stores would be $2,850,000 better off this year than last, that "real earnings" are in prospect. He resigned, he said, to "go in for exercise in a big way" on a ranch in the Southwest...
...dominated by industrialists they will be the class favored in opposition to the financial, reatier, and labor groups. Labor can be bought off by a meaningless advisory board which can be proclaimed in glory and stified at leisure, and the rentier class can be taken in by the prospect of no write-off of bad investment. Then the government entrepreneurs can proceed to scotch both of them by the invisible, intangible method of raising prices by restriction of production, allowing inefficient industries through tariffs...