Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia has, in all western Europe, only one treaty-ally, the French Republic. Therefore, since Comrade Navachine, who had sold France on Stalin in the first place, was now going to try to unsell France on Stalin, the situation in which Paris agents of the Ogpu found themselves was "vital to the Soviet Fatherland...
...Powers in committing political murders from time to time with great neatness were well described in Harper's for last August. A favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
Proctor McCormick started with a warning: "Unless we ... become conscious of our most vital problems and set about to solve them immediately, the time is not far distant when the profession of the law will have degenerated to a huckster business or else some violent change will do away with it entirely...
Most of President Pelley's 400 employes-half in Washington, half out-are busy keeping tabs on the country's 1,800,000 freight cars. One of their chores is to gather vital statistics of car loadings. The most notable industrial achievement of President Pelley's two years has been the so-called "average" plan for settling car hire between railroads and reducing profitless hauling and switching of empty cars. The A.A.R.'s car service division referees this activity, which now saves U. S. roads $12,000,000 a year...
...court. Meantime the railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association have been trying to get together on a mutually acceptable agreement to obviate the necessity of further legislation. They are split on a number of details, chiefly on whether the retirement age is to be 65 or 70, a vital point since thousands of railroad men are close to retirement age right...