Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of pressure groups is vicious, says Mr. Lippmann, because the production of wealth is diminished. He agrees with the managers of great corporations who are "fully aware that the production of wealth is restricted by labor laws which enable their employees to do less work for more pay." Mr. Lippmann does not suggest that more purchasing power in the hands of workers enables managers to produce more and so facilitates the production of wealth. At this point Mr. Lippmann does not seem to believe in either the redistribution of the wealth or organization of workers. But 100 pages further...
...that they are doing no end of damage to the game-crop, not only to seriously tempting a few money-mad students but much more important, in undermining the reputation of the H. A. A. for fair, impartial distribution of said pasteboards. On the opposite are of this vicious circle is the public. They too are suffering, and will continue to suffer for the rest of the week unless some deadly antidote is quickly compounded by the University to curb this crawling menace. For the public will pay the scalpers the original price of the ticket, plus the several hundred...
When Buffalo's publicity wise Bell Aircraft Corp. delivered a single experimental super bomber-fighter to the U. S. Army Air Corps last July they dubbed it Airacuda-air for its medium; acuda, from barracuda, that giant warm-ocean pike-like fish noted as a tireless, reckless, vicious killer. To Airacuda Bell Aircraft proudly added a mixed-metaphoric subtitle "Tiger of the Skies." Last week, Army pilots who were testing it at Wright Field, Dayton, found it indeed a "tiger...
Matsumoto rebutting, disclaimed the validity of the Tanaka Memorial, as representing a vicious minority group, and ridiculed the reports of Japanese power, comparing the Chinese people to a green bamboo which can be bent but not broken. A half-hour of questioning from the audience of 75 followed the speaking. The meeting broke up at about 10 o'clock...
...other broad front, the New Deal by its shortsighted labor policy has completely undermined whatever faith American business might have had in government as a fair arbiter of industrial disputes. The Administration's failure to put a quietus on sit-down strikes, the vicious new tool of John L. Lewis, and Mr. Roosevelt's tacit and at times open support of labor in all its disputes with capital, and finally the farcical "hearing" of the National Labor Relations Board, which has earned the name of being a C. I. O. affiliate, have all added to the spirit of unrest which...