Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...
...reporting one reason why Columnist Pearson dislikes Maryland's Senator Tydings (TIME, Oct. 24), TIME erred in stating that Mr. Pearson once courted the present Mrs. Tydings...
Holdup. At Shanghai this week as the U. S. Dollar Line's 22,000-ton President Coolidge prepared to pull out of the Yangtze mouth, Shanghai customs officials, acting on orders from Japanese military authorities, suddenly suspended the vessel's clearance papers. Reason: stowed aboard was silver worth $4,500,000, mostly bullion belonging to the Chinese Government but some of it jewelry and silver ware donated by patriotic Chinese for the purchase of war materials. The consignment was on its way to New York's Chase National Bank. The Japanese claimed that the silver rightfully belonged...
Walter Edmund O'Hara, independent candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, asked the Board of Tax Appeals to allow him income-tax deductions of $373,112. Reason: He had wagered $4,084,797 at his own race track* in 1935 and 1936, failed to recover all he bet, considered the losses as incurred in the conduct of his business...
...sales talk-"Buy now before the price goes up." Mutual Life of New York, Northwestern Mutual Life, New York Life and Connecticut Mutual had announced that they would soon make important changes in their contracts and every other important life insurance company was expected to follow suit. Immediate reason: Into effect on January 1 goes a New York law reducing from 6% to 5% the interest that life insurance companies may charge for policy loans...