Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford Motor Co., charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel Ford or any other officer of the company but by Harry H. Bennett, personnel...
...vast luncheon of alumni who attended Yale's graduation exercises in New Haven last week, a father and son flushed with particular emotion when President Angell rose, characteristically tugged his ear and announced the creation of a Jane...
Even Manhattan's vast R. H. (for cash) Macy & Co. has had to make concessions to the Installment Plan. No one is in debt to Macy's but some of Macy's customers are in debt to a Morris Plan Bank with a representative right in the store. A competitive measure, the Morris Plan tie-up is not advertised by Macy's, but if a customer hesitates for lack of ready cash, he is likely to be steered to the Morris Plan "fellow on the ninth floor...
...vast number of people who will be buying on credit will, of course, not recognize the danger and they and the affected businessmen will resent interference. Many soothsayers will arise to lull any fears. It will be pointed out that an overexpansion of credit cannot be near at hand because brokers' loans are low and security credit under strict control. (This will be the same type of argument as the 1929 one that inventories were not over-extended and therefore no great danger existed.) It will be pointed out with great pride how well installment selling fared...
...life, can really settle down in Washington. Senatorial families usually find it safer to rent a house than buy one. F. F. V.'s and Mayflower Bostonians may consider Washington society a cosmopolitan free-for-all except in those small circles tangent to their own, but to the vast majority of U. S. housewives, a Senator's wife is well above the social timberline. Commoners who suspect that Senators' wives them selves sometimes share this view will find their worst suspicions confirmed by Capital Kaleidoscope and Mrs. Copeland's Guest Book...