Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor's honeymoon with the present Administration is definitely over. The workingman was given a substantial lift but that push did not suffice to bring the country out of the depression, so now he may expect nothing but rebuffs. It is now the entrepreneur's turn to be listened to. It was possible for a new Administration, filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must...
Next day the President was back at his desk in Washington, where he found that the gossip currently to the fore was that the "social control bloc" of young liberals in the Administration was chafing at his hesitancy to push longview radical reforms...
...indisputably young but drawn and lined beyond the power of rice powder and rouge to conceal; the audience watched the faces for signs that would show the near collapse of one or another of the youths. If the audience tired of watching it was amused by seeing two buffoons push one another over, spit at one another, make lewd jokes, or it could eat popcorn and ice-cream. The contestants shuffled on, around and around...
...castings had to be scrapped. Liquormen know they will be exposed to fierce public criticism. What got under their skins at the code hearings last week was Washington's bland assumption that they were totally incapable of selfdiscipline. They were convinced that, if given a chance, they could push whiskey into a respectable place high in big business circles. Seton Porter and his associates were keenly aware of their social responsibilities. For his own company, as No. i whiskey man, he cherished the hope that it might some day have the swank of Britain's DCL. Competition would...
...that only the necessity for returning a grade at April causes them to sanction this rude interruption of their programs. The liberal attitude of University Hall toward the matter is demonstrated by the decision last year to exempt Senior honors candidates at the discretion of course leaders. A slight push by the Student Council might well send the April hours into oblivion, and administer a suitable coup de grace to a bit of red tape outgrown with the introduction of the concentration plan...