Word: rein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leads 2,000 men, women and children in a mass suicide against the Dutch guns. The men, armed only with swords, go down like tenpins. The women kill their children, then themselves. This invincible heroism, says Author Baum, taught the Dutch to rule the conquered Balinese with a loose rein. One thing the prudish Dutchmen did insist on: that the satiny brown-skinned Balinese women cover their beautiful breasts...
Musicraft. Last February Musicraft Records, Inc. was the first of the three new little firms on the market with such discs. A youngish Manhattan lawyer named Milton L. Rein and a music teacher named Henry Cohen formed the firm, took in Herman Adler, a musical researcher from Germany, as digger-in-chief for recordable works...
...however, is a slightly significant agreement by General Motors, "the within a period of six months we will not bargain with or enter into agreements with any other union or representative of employed" without gaining the U.A.W.A.'s sanction. Simply put, the union will have, for six months, free rein in its membership drives, will be on top of the labor heap. Thus this minority labor group got a very real concession...
...fantasy in assuming that Franklin Roosevelt, having performed miracles in U. S. politics, hopes to round out his claim to a big place in history by participating in world affairs. Any European adventure would bring U. S. isolationists howling about his ears, but U. S. Presidents have a free rein to fool around in the western hemisphere. A Roosevelt Doctrine might succeed the defunct Monroe Doctrine if, on the basis of the Good Neighbor Policy, a great neutral bloc could be created in the Americas, assuring mutual American economic, political and military self-sufficiency if Europe and Asia should...
...past U. S. foreign policy. Cordell Hull's second piece of good fortune was that when his chance came, it was at a moment when Franklin Roosevelt was eager to capitalize the Hull policies. Success may or may not crown his efforts but at last he has free rein, such as few U. S. statesmen ever have, to attempt the things that are his sole belief...