Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the trust-busting guns which he has turned on the monopolies of the building trades (TIME, Nov. 20), Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold last week let go another salvo. In spite of the liberal view that unions can do no lawbreaking, Trustbuster Arnold proceeded to list five kinds of union behavior which the Department of Justice considers violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The five...
Next day Judge Lindley slapped a $5,000 fine on each of the four corporations, ordered them to pay the cost of prosecution, estimated at $500,000 to $1,000,000. He did so in spite of defense motions to throw out the peculiar verdict. Said he wryly...
...further, thought it was a good idea to put some millions of its enormous resources into buying a piece of Pullman Co. Pullman, No. 1 freight and passenger car builder, can produce 2,370 passenger cars a year, 74,700 freight cars. Conservative railroadmen shuddered, in spite of G. M.'s cheap financing aid, efficient engineering methods, at the idea that an automobile outsider should shoulder into the railroad aristocracy. To not so spry U. S. rail-engineering, it would hold out the promise of a good shaking up at the hands of a top-notch engineering organization...
...rollicking texts, which require a certain amount of editing for relatively prudish modern audiences. Lawton's arrangement of Casey Jones is a remarkably clever composition, and The Old Maid's Song, a Kentucky mountain folk-song, has a text and a lilting melody which ensure its success in spite of a rather unimaginative setting...
...spite of the arrival of the biggest buyers the U. S. has seen in a generation there are relatively few war orders to date whose actual existence can be confirmed. World War II is a war of caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to correlate purchases to keep from bidding against each other, so they have been cautious in other ways. Mindful that this time purchases in the U. S. are for cash, which has to be laid on the barrel-head, they are shopping carefully. For the same reason Britain is buying everything...