Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faction, which believes in strong centralized authority, and the Unity faction headed by Vice President Mortimer and Mr. Frankensteen, which believes in greater local autonomy. That, in Mr. Martin's opinion, has led to U.A.W.'s "wildcat" strikes. Crux of last week's row was clever, self-assertive Fred C. Pieper, board member from Atlanta and chairman of U.A.W.'s newly created finance committee. According to President Martin's enemies, Mr. Pieper had pre-empted most of the executive authority at Detroit headquarters with no sanction except Mr. Martin's personal blessing. According...
...which returned to England fortnight ago after scouting production facilities of U. S. and Canadian concerns. No Canadian contracts were let last week but the Ministry admitted that a move to aid Canadian aircraft production, in line with the mother country's longview program to make the Dominions self-sufficient in their rearmament, would soon be under...
...possible solutions to the present problem of House dances, the projected Harvard "prom" is undoubtedly the worst. Such a function, while getting rid of none of the important evils of House dances, would completely destroy the charm of the undergraduate social season, and would cause every self-respecting student to go out of town for the weekend on which it was held...
...they remained well below the 9? figure at which Commodity Credit Corp. bought surplus cotton last year. Organized in 1933 "to insure the orderly marketing" of cotton and other products-in short, to peg prices-Commodity Credit was once regarded as one of the New Deal's few self-sustaining agencies. But despite its auspicious start in 1933-34, its successful $200,000,000 issue of Government-guaranteed 3/4% notes last month, the agency has lately run into difficulties.* Recently it announced a $51,000,000 loss on 12? cotton loans made in 1934, and with...
...these days even his records will be played out." To approximate that music in prose, she gives accounts of where and when it was played and how Rick Martin fell when he played it-but since what he felt was principally a moment of inspiration and self-forgetfulness, her accounts might apply as well to bad jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about the hard, homely details of musicians' lives, the routine of rehearsals, fights, salaries, jealousies, weariness, interrupted with moments of feverish musical excitement. It comes out strong when...