Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago to dedicate a bridge and incidentally revise U. S. foreign policy of the last some 15 years (see col. 3). In Hyde Park the next day he sprang another rabbit. Sitting on the stone porch of his mother's house he gave a press conference to understand that he had practically made up his mind to call a special session of Congress next month, to start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid out the special session's program, starting where the 75th Congress' tired first session ended last summer: crop control, antilynching, wages and hours...
...union, and that included A. F. of L. unions. Whenever the Labor Board discovered an employer forcing his workers into an A. F. of L. union as the lesser of two evils it was up to the Board to act, "for no Board which can read English and can understand the purpose of this law can ever hold . . . that the employer may choose the union for his employes...
...Christian ideas as an introduction to a systematically governed debate on religious problems, personal and universal, undergraduates are now given an unpreccedented chance to let off steam to some effect. Insted of consistently avoiding these questions, Harvardmen may, if they will, take a vital interest in trying to understand and evaluate the faith of their fathers. As an instrument reminding students that there is a spiritual side of life, the new series of lectures has already made great strides...
...them stumped up at the Architectural School. They say that Gropius can't understand it. It's a notched hard wood stick, with a nail stuck in the end and on the nail a propellor. You hold the stick in either hand and with the other rub a second stick, any shape, across the notches...
...Duce was quick to understand the political advantage of producing what looked like 100% Italian films with all the advantages of Hollywood imported technicians, cameramen, designers...