Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose decision is usually accepted though neither side binds itself beforehand. Local disputes are carried up, through district committees, to a national joint board of the industry. "The objective is to settle locally as many disputes as possible, and if they cannot be so settled, to make the procedure short enough to satisfy the workers . . . long enough to allay the tension." Unauthorized local strikes are frowned on by union higher-ups and are rare...
Having damned "$30 Every Thursday" as a "short cut to Utopia" and "a fantastic financial scheme" only last fortnight, last week President Roosevelt - rather than of fend 800,000 California voters and a likely new "liberal" Senator - gracefully observed that the people of California have a perfect right to try any financial scheme they choose, however unsound...
...Forgotten Man's friend when Franklin Roosevelt wore short pants. Like John Llewellyn Lewis, he is a Welsh miner's son. He dug coal, aged 9, in the pits of Pennsylvania. A Sunday school teacher taught him to read. A parson and a lawyer helped him get learning and law, at night. He settled and practiced in Cumberland, a western Maryland mining town. He reached Congress...
...Leftist People's Army into the Rightist lines and surrendered. Obligingly the proletarian soldier demonstrated his death-dealing machine to an aristocratic audience which included German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer, Italian Ambassador Count Guido Viola di Campalto, Papal Nuncio Mgr. Gaetano Cicognani. Opening the exhibit was short, blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain's No. 2 man. The Count orated: "In this extravagant display of selected specimens of captured war materiel you have visual evidence...
Only procedure is to treat coccidioidal granuloma like tuberculosis. By 1936, said short, bright-eyed Dr. Dickson, 450 cases of the secondary disease had been reported in San Joaquin Valley, most of them in Tulare, Kern, Kings and Fresno counties. The disease is not contagious and attacks animals as well as men. Why San Joaquin Valley is the centre of coccidioidomycosis, Dr. Dickson could not say. Perhaps the hot dry summers, he suggested, favor the growth and reproduction of the fungus. Certain it is that the disease is not spreading beyond the valley...