Word: quos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor, a crucial index to the sentiment of any modern government, the powers that be have repeatedly attempted to mollify strikers while really protecting employers, as some union leaders have complained. Pleas for a truce, for pacific adjustment of quarrels, generally indicate a gentle determination to maintain the status quo. Naturally, the problem is not this simple in reality, as public utility men will loudly declaim. But on the whole, the policy of the President appears to be one of favoring big business first, and groups like the National Chamber of Commerce are slowly coming to realize and confirm this...
...paid at the rate of $1.69 for every $1 borrowed. To most debtors such an added burden would prove disastrous. Furthermore, no matter what the outcome of the gold clause cases, business was face to face with what it always fears most-a threat to the status quo...
Stormy Socialist Max Braun, the German who has risked his life a thousand times in the past few months to organize Saar Socialists, Catholics and Communists in opposition to Saar Nazis, declared in his final appeal to Saarlanders to vote for the status quo! "We are Germans and we want eventually to return to Germany. But we are determined that the Saar shall not go to Hitler! There is a difference between Germany and Hitler. The Nazis pass, Germany remains...
Meanwhile the precise text of the covenants secretly arrived at in Rome fortnight ago by Premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval remained secret last week, to the extreme vexation of the League of Nations. That M. Laval, for a political quid pro quo in Europe, had sold Abyssinia down the river to Mussolini few doubted. So far as Africa is concerned, it appeared from official summaries of the secret pacts that Italy had got from France...
Clarioned the editors of Japan Trade: "NOTICE!!! The Japan Trade is a journal devoted to introducing Japan's status quo in every respect. . . . The recent development of Japan's industries is looked upon by the world as almost phenomenal. . . . This is why we have this time established, in our office, this sort of machinery under the style of the Trade Mediation Department. ... If interested in the trade with Japan, you are solicited." Advertised products include apparently exact Japanese copies of Eastman Kodaks, Thermos Bottles, Mazda Lamps. But Osaka's ingenious K. Mori & Co. have thought of something...