Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal by its shortsighted labor policy has completely undermined whatever faith American business might have had in government as a fair arbiter of industrial disputes. The Administration's failure to put a quietus on sit-down strikes, the vicious new tool of John L. Lewis, and Mr. Roosevelt's tacit and at times open support of labor in all its disputes with capital, and finally the farcical "hearing" of the National Labor Relations Board, which has earned the name of being a C. I. O. affiliate, have all added to the spirit of unrest which walks abroad in the land...
When debate resumed this week, Sena tor Byrnes changed his amendment to apply to all Sit-Downs affecting interstate commerce, but many a colleague still objected to having it tacked to the Guffey Bill. Denying assertions that a vote against the amendment would be a tacit endorsement of the Sit-Down. Senator Minton cried: "I'm willing to meet this issue but I am unwilling to have the textile industry compel me to cast a vote that might be construed as the Senators suggest...
...frankly anti-Communist foreign policy. He stoutly denied he was interested in joining Japan to the Fascist group in Europe, said he wanted only to protect Manchukuo from Communist penetration. At these words, venerable Kunimatsu Hamada, a leader of the Seiyukai (minority party), rose to his feet, hurled with tacit approval of the majority party (the Minseito) furious accusations that the Army leaders aim at Fascism, that the Cabinet are "mere Army puppets!" To retort, up jumped fiery War Minister Count Terauchi. Amid civilian hoots and catcalls he said...
...listed in parallel columns 15 nationally known food products against 15 equivalents manufactured by A & P, all sold in A & P stores. The prices in the outside brand column added up to $2.40; those in the A & P products column to $1.70. Though A & P handbills regularly make a tacit comparison between national brands and A & P's, this was the first instance of an explicit price challenge. Investigating the feelings of big food manufacturers, Tide reported that they were in "conniptions...
...Bros, story. It presents in addition its own modest problem in sociology: has the State a right to punish a man for a crime committed due to pressure put upon him through a miscarriage of justice? Producer Walter Wanger leaves the conclusion to the audience, having arranged as a tacit persuader Eddie's doomed and breath-taking flight toward the Canadian border with his wife, Joan (Sylvia Sidney). Justice works out a satisfactory answer, even though the trooper who marks Eddie with the cross hairs of his telescope sight, never pulls the trigger...