Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brand new labor policy, ordered the company to negotiate only with the majority of its workers. Houde refused. NRA took away Houde's Blue Eagle. In September the Houde case made even more headlines when the National Manufacturers Association notified its membership to ignore NLRB's decision on majority rule. The board's retort was to prepare a complaint against the Houde company and send it to the Department of Justice for action...
...Rhine knows that any sane insurance actuary would agree with him that chance is ruled out. To rule out other factors he has taken elaborate measures. And whenever possible Dr. Rhine had witnesses present?departmental colleagues, skeptical or friendly, frequently Dr. McDougall himself. He even invited Wallace Lee, a professional magician, to observe some tests and explain the scores if he could. Magician Lee came and observed but did not explain...
These two half-courses which cover the same ground under different men in successive terms, demand a high grade on the entrance examination. Chemistry A. or a course in Physics. As a general rule, you should not attempt to break these requirements unless you have had excellent previous fraining...
...enrolls in one of the elementary courses, will find his scientific interest soon crushed. He will find himself entangled in a web of minute regulations; he will be mechanized or flunked. Laboratory assistants do not as a rule show students the theories and principles which unite the details of the separate experiments and weld them into a comprehensive whole. Armed with mimeographed instruction sheets, they answer all those questions that should be asked and frown upon the extraneous. Tests come regularly and are returned regularly...
...most conservative of recent years. Stanley Baldwin and Noville Chamberlain dominate Parliament, backed by a docile majority. Those men could easily place a member of their own party in the premier's office. Evidently, however, they feel that Mr. MacDonald lends a non-partisan aura to their rule without, interfering in any way with its program. Why he accepts this uninspired position is not so easily arrived at. Probably in 1929 he felt that a national emergency made compromise a patriotic duty. Since then the subtle influences of Mayfair and old age have lulled his fighting Scotch radicalism. The laborite...