Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ostensibly, these conferences are held only in order to alleviate the economic plight of Austria and Hungary by the formation of more favorable trade relations with Italy; no other power, it seems, is willing to take this step which is necessary if Austrian independence is to be maintained; hence Italy has nobly and altruistically come to the rescue quite devoid of any nordid ambitions. That this is pure buncombe it is hardly necessary to point out. What has happened is simply that Mussolini has seen that this is the opportunity of a lifetime to institute a defensive alliance with Austria...
...principal difficulty at present is that the municipalities will not grant sufficient funds for the organization of effectively trained, equipped, and organized law-enforcing departments. The state must step in and supply an organizing unit, training schools for police officers, and sufficient funds. The only way that it can be forced to do this is by having the people of the state demand action...
...National Labor Board and NRA. To its eight members, he added five more: Clay Williams, president of Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Leon Marshall of Johns Hopkins Law School; Ernest Draper, Manhattan food packer; Gerard Swope, president of General Electric; and Harry Dennison, stationery supplies manufacturer. Thus was the first step taken to give the Labor. Board new powers to settle the Weirton Steel and Budd Manufacturing Co. labor disputes...
...know your thoughts on the next step...
...words. Born Lincoln Perry in Key West, Fla., in 1902, Stepin Fetchit went to divinity school. When after two years he learned that it would take two more to finish the course, he resigned. Discharged for incompetence as a racetrack tout, he adopted the name of his favorite horse (Step and Fetch It) and decided to try acting...