Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeed because the law provided no penalties for evasion of the board's decisions and because Calvin Coolidge's appointees were generally inefficient. In 1934, against the bitter lobbying of the Association of American Railroads, the New Deal shoved through a Railway Labor Act Amendment with teeth in it, set up a three-man National Mediation Board. Chairman since then has been little, alert, Estonian-born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert on arbitration. His present fellow members are both 200-pounders: George Cook, who began his career...
...have no teeth!" wailed a crone in the congregation...
...Madam," said the preacher, a man of faith, "teeth will be furnished...
...runs an old camp-meeting story. And so, last week, stood matters for 22,000 Home Relief clients in New York City. WPA used to make and distribute false teeth. It stopped when it could not find enough technicians on its rolls to keep pace with the demand. Last week, after many an indigent had waited toothless for two years, the problem was solved by the city's Department of Public Welfare contracting with nine dental laboratories to manufacture some 35,000 plates, following X-rays, extractions and impressions made by WPA dental clinics...
...much alarmed by the change of Government in Germany after the War. Their Wartime profits were about 800,000,000 marks and they were given a subsidy to compensate them for the War's sudden end. No longer allowed to manufacture munitions, they turned out trucks, machinery, artificial teeth. The Krupps were not among the financial backers of the Nazis, says Author Menne, but now they are earning (at least on paper) enough money to make their Wartime profits seem like BBs beside cannon balls...