Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their children were placed in better than average homes. After one and one-half to six years, the children were tested and their average I. Q. was 116, equal to the average for children of university professors. More remarkable still, 30 children in the group, who had feeble-minded mothers, also had an average...
...wages are not high; 2) a horizontal wage cut would not meet the emergency since the savings would not go merely to the needy roads; 3) a wage cut would run counter to the present trend of U. S. wages; 4) the railroads' distress since October 1937 is still a short-term situation which the current improvement in business may correct; 5) therefore, the roads should drop the whole idea...
...week's end no one in authority would predict what might happen next. It seemed unlikely management would still insist on the December 1 cut; but if it should, labor would undoubtedly go on the nation-wide strike already voted. By putting it squarely up to the Government to do something for the staggering roads, the Fact-Finders gave impetus to Franklin Roosevelt's request that the two opposing groups get together on a sweeping legislative program...
...problem, but last week the 585 merry conferees produced no new explanations for it, no new remedies. In his opening address Banker Frothingham gave measured expression to I. B. A.'s usual explanation-that the New Deal is to blame. Said he: "Business still feels the gravest concern and hesitancy to venture, in the atmosphere of restrictions and penalties that confront it." Nonetheless, Banker Frothingham gave the New Deal praise for right motives...
When news of the Fascist uprising reached Barcelona, two years ago, factory whistles all over the city began to blow. In the grey dawn, while the street lights were still burning, one whistle sounded, then another, then a hundred-steadily, mournfully, as in the old days the belfries clamored together in times of peril. Fascist troops were marching on the centre of the city...