Word: spadework
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Packinghouses, utilities, lumbering, shoes, aircraft, business offices. In these and many another, the same story generally holds good: C. I. O. in its first burst of organization in 1936-37 did the spadework; A. F. of L. came in later, organizing the same industries and even the same shops where C. I. O. had won Labor's first important gains...
...August, Franklin Roosevelt pointedly omitted to thank the members for their 229 days of work. They had killed his Supreme Court bill. They had left undone many things he thought they ought to have done. He called them back for a special session in November. Except for some legislative spadework accomplished in committee, the 37-day special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress. As the end approached, Franklin Roosevelt felt kindly enough toward the members...
...humiliation over the failure of the Reorganization Bill, Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins, Acting Budget Director Daniel W. Bell, Chairman Carter Glass of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chairman Edward T. Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee. These met for a White House conference this week. Meantime, Congressional spadework and broad hints by the President in his press conferences and elsewhere during the week had roughed in the three sums to be provided: $1,500,000,000 for loans to business and various governmental units, $1,500,000,000 for public works, $1,500,000,000 for relief. The sources...
Nonetheless, if in five weeks Senate and House had passed little, they had done enough spadework to insure the passage of at least one item on the President's list (a farm bill, now being rewritten in conference) several weeks earlier than otherwise. Furthermore, two items not on the original program but added later because of Recession were got under...
Taken either as independent creations or as spadework for her miming, her new paintings and drawings of archaic Greek and Oriental forms, Spanish bullfighters, imagined figures from history, were fresh, economical, expert. Her evening of pantomime to music was a reassuring exhibition for devotees and newcomers alike in a large, light-hearted audience. And in her briskly written account of Mediterranean travel, study and U. S. trouping, critics found a key to the pleasures of mime that many of them, had long fumbled for in vain. This key was, simply, vaudeville...