Word: spadework
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author- James Paul Warburg, 37, is vice chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., co-author with his wife Katherine ("Kay") Swift of "Can't We Be Friends?" and "Up Among the Chimney Pots." Born in Germany and educated at Harvard he did much of the early spadework for the London Conference. Since his exit from the national stage, he has been a prime leader in the fight against inflation...
...fail to notice the more noisome puddles, and Dickens soon made a name for himself as a crusader against social ills. To his critics' assertion that his indignation proceeded from no plan, that he had no social program, his defenders reply that his attacks did much of the spadework that made programs possible. In many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor, their crowded and filthy dwellings, the ignorance, disease and dirt that was complacently assumed to be their lot. Dickens pilloried child labor (David Copper field), venaliy-conducted charitable institutions (Oliver...
...hearing June 27, the code provides a minimum wage of $10 a week in southern mills. $11 in the north, a 44-hr, week, and acknowledgement of employes' right to collective bargaining. The coal men in Chicago were preparing a code. The American Petroleum Institute was also doing spadework in Chicago, while to Washington the independents sent their own recommendations. At Bloomfield, Ind., 30 Indiana limestone producers agreed on a code...
After adjourning, the B. I. S. directors did not go home. Their real work, the best reason for their meeting was to hold a series of conferences, do the spadework necessary to present some sort of a plan to the World Economic Conference in June for the resumption of a "reformed" gold standard by B. I. S. members for which the B. I. S. annual report called...
...pure-minded U. S. sanitary engineer. Finally just a year late, she reached north Oxford at last. Aunt Ermyntrude was not at all upset, was still expecting her. Without once calling a spade a spade, Author Laver manages to give the impression that a good deal of spadework has been done...