Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure to make a desperate fight for industrial unionism on the floor of the Federation's Tampa convention this autumn. If he wins, John Lewis will be a figure to be reckoned with in U. S. Industry. If he loses, he is likely to pull his eight allied unions out of the A. F. of L., historically rend U. S. Labor...
...possible to facilitate Treasury borrowing. Cheap money cuts the cost of doing business in general but is also an invitation to speculation. And, politics being what they are, the thing that bothers serious economists is whether Chairman Eccles and his fellow money managers will be able to pull the lever before reflation turns into inflation. Chairman Eccles defines inflation as a "condition brought about when the means of payment in the hands of those who will spend increases faster than goods can be produced." On this definition he bases a rhetorical question: "How is it possible to have inflation when...
...most valuable political heritage Huey Long left behind was a set of election laws which gave absolute control to the party in power of every ballot box and polling place in Louisiana. While nobody had ever tested it, it looked as if all the "ins" had to do was pull the trigger and hang on forever. Long before last week's primary it had been decided who among the Long survivors were going to get the benefit of this election device. In view of faithful stooge service, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen was to go to Washington until January...
...serious armed Fascist threats at home, 1931's Man of the Year stood almost an even chance of repeating in 1935. . . . If in 1932 the Republicans and Democrats of the U. S., faced with an A. F. of L. uprising, hid combined to re-elect Herbert Hoover to pull them out of the Depression, and if then some member of his cabinet such as a Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt had rapidly
...Swindler's young widow Arlette. To many a Frenchman her 14 months in prison awaiting trial have seemed unduly severe. She was let out on bail at last (TIME, May 13) but sympathy still enshrouds her. On the advice of Maitre de Moro-Giafferi last week Arlette Stavisky pulled out all the organ stops in a plea for PITY which went to the heart of France. "To be able to go away and forget all this by migrating with my children to America!" she cried. "To bring up my children to love me and respect the memory of their...