Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time that the Liberty League persuaded fifty of their most talented legal counsel to declare the Act unconstitutional to the most recent jeremiad of the National Association of Manufacturers, the hostility of an important segment of employers to collective bargaining has remained unabated. And it has resulted in the use of spies, munitions, special company police, bought newspapers and every disreputable device that the ingenuity of law-abiding business could provide. Mr. O'Brian makes no mention of these things...
...done to check "the new iniquity now incubating within the heads of the dictators of European policy." Vanguardia followed this by making friendly overtures to Portuguese Dictator Salazar, who ever since the Spanish war began has sided with General Franco, encouraging German and Italian freighters and war craft to use Portuguese facilities in taking troops and supplies to Spanish Rightists. Keynoted Vanguardia unexpectedly: "All Spaniards...
...good to have a giant's strength," Neville Chamberlain keynoted several weeks before the Czechoslovak Crisis arose: "It is tyrannous to use...
...help Premier Daladier get France "back to normalcy" as soon as possible, President Albert Lebrun and the Cabinet signed over to him decree powers running until Jan. 1, 1939. In democratic France the parliamentary rumpus stirred up by this forced the Premier to promise not to use these powers after November 15 without a further mandate from Deputies and Senators. Daladier had previously been voted confidence 535-to-75 by the Chamber, after keynoting: "All Frenchmen must now consider themselves permanently mobilized in the service of Peace. . . . We hope to substitute legal practices for solutions by force. ... In the interests...
...Wall Street men take time to talk about the weather, but one morning last week a group sat in an office where Wall Street meets the East River and talked of little else. The occasion: a demonstration of the weather charting system which American Export Line expects to use when and if its subsidiary, American Export Air Lines, Inc., starts flying the Atlantic. Along one wall stood a huge map of the North Atlantic. Dotting the 3,445-mile course from Manhattan to Lisbon via the Azores were India-ink silhouettes of 14 ships, nine American Exporters, five Fascist...