Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minute. When Virginia's Harry Byrd proposed killing the section applying to the Comptroller General, the Administration's majority against him stood at 4740-36. All this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come to a final test on Friday, he postponed the roll call over the week end to make his victory all the more one-sided. This almost turned out to be a serious error...
Behind this evidence of declining confidence in Homer Martin's leadership was a variety of reasons. Recession has meant long layoffs or drastic reductions in hours for thousands of auto workers. Unemployment is always a severe test of the loyalty of union members, particularly so for U. A. W. members, most of whom are new to unionism.* With it came a drop in dues payments so sharp that the international union took all its organizers off the payroll, asked them to serve on a volunteer basis temporarily. Despite claims of increasing enrollment of Ford workers, the union...
Kaspar has none of the bashfulness of a Milquetoast. When he is complimented on speaking English well, he explains: "I picked it up on my travels." His English had its stiffest test when, on his way back from an Australian tour, he was asked to explain skating to a Ceylon reporter who had never seen ice except in highballs...
...high test of ability, as was shown when the Harvard boat went ashore, and had to be dragged into the river by a wrecker...
Thirty-two Varsity and Freshman golf candidates reported to Coach Clark Hodder yesterday for the first meeting of the year. Since the regular greens at the Belmont Country Club will not be open until this weekend, there will be no test matches for the aspirants until after vacation, Hodder announced...