Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voting down (50-to-38) a second introduction of the McCarran proposal to pay the wages of the private building industry to workers on public projects, the Senate substituted an amendment giving the President "discretionary control" of relief pay except on Federal building projects. The horse trade which effected this compromise was reported to have been made between the President and New York's Senator Wagner, who exacted in exchange the Administration's support for his Labor Relations Bill. Within a week observers expected that the Relief Bill would be on the President's desk and that...
Scenarists Doris Malloy and Harry Clork needed and used every trick of their trade to expand a fragment of atmospheric writing by Runyon into an agreeable full-length feature. The excellent Manhattan exteriors, including the Plaza Hotel and Central Park, are not glass process shots but well selected bits of San Francisco...
...were really a question of propaganda on their part, asked the powermen, what about the rolling barrage laid down by the Federal Trade Commission in its interminable power probe? For months that body has been pouring forth releases which by headlines damned all powermen for the sins of a few like Samuel Insull...
...features of the summer curriculum will be the number of courses for adults who desire "to keep up with the times." These courses will deal with national and international problems of finance, labor, the Roosevelt administration, sociology, economics, political parties, and trade...
...book (he has written between 80 and 100. confesses he has lost track of the total). His first visit to the U. S. was in 1896, when he married a California girl (Elodie Agnes Hogan; died 1914). Newshawks found Author Belloc tired and old. He grumbled: "I hate my trade. . . . Everybody hates his trade. I'd like to be a banker, without any work to do in the bank." Author Belloc's prolific output includes histories, essays, biographies, critical studies, children's books, travel books, political polemics, satires, sonnets, novels, light verse, defenses of the Catholic faith...