Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...availability, the rectitude of her impulses, her statesmanship and her popularity become increasingly apparent, I wonder how many others may have had the same thought: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt for our next President. It would be an experience to have the country ruled from the distaff side of the house, in terms of women's impulses. And Anna Eleanor Roosevelt looks like the logical solution to the problem confronting the liberal Democrats...
...Instead of suicide or fratricide, what is the matter with our own side...
...Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an "abstention from work." Day after day in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, Messrs. Lewis, Charles O'Neill of the operators and three other negotiators for each side swapped stories, cussed Hitler, disagreed about Roosevelt, issued futile counterblasts to the press. They had been doing approximately this since their last agreement expired on April Fools' Day. Two Department of Labor conciliators, after trying to arrange a settlement, indicated that the story-telling was likely...
Lewis, O'Neill & associates were not simply wasting time. Each side waited for the other to crack under increasing pressure from U. S. coal consumers. John Lewis hoped the operators would crack to the point of giving him a closed shop,* or a contract clause permitting him to strike whenever A. F. of L.'s unions, particularly the small Progressive Miners of America, may try to encroach on U. M. W. preserves. Many an operator was willing to surrender by last week, but as a group they still hung together for renewal of the old contract, including...
...walls of the much renovated Big Tree Swimming Pool are masses of facts and figures on almost every phase of life of some 80 normal boys. A thorough medical examination, registration of metabolism and fatigue tests, an anthropological examination,--all these were part of the survey of the physical side. On the mental side, investigations of the boy's genealogy and of his home, religious, sex, and academic life were correlated to produce a fairly accurate, if somewhat superficial, knowledge of his mental make-up. Results and conclusions of the survey will not be published for four more years...