Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preoccupation with war, and "doing something about it," has given rise to pressure groups whose target is the White House. Dorothy Thompson heads one of these...
...unable to rise above your personal ambitions and dictator complex."-Homer Martin to John Lewis...
This exchange last week officially signaled the rise of dual unions in the automobile, aircraft and related supply industries. Each continued to call itself United Automobile Workers of America. One is a C. I. O. union, to whose acting presidency homely, placid Roland Jay Thomas of Detroit was elected last week by his suspended colleagues on the old union's executive board. Homer Martin's U. A. W. remained for the present independent of both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. (like David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers). In this circumstance lies...
...Federal Reserve Board reported that industrial production was about at December's level, although a rise in January would be normal. The fact that public spending as indicated by bank debits showed a marked downtrend, posed the possibility that consumption might not support even the present rate of production. Balance of expert opinion, however, continued last week to term this industrial hesitation a "pause that refreshes" rather than a "lull before the storm...
...only public speech of the war: ''You can conquer more ground with material strength, but you cannot conquer the people. Even if you succeed in crushing us you could be sure that from the ruins of our cities and the bones of our dead there would rise the ideal of liberty and independence, which is fed by the blood of our soldiers...