Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry and labor are affected is a section authorizing draft boards to "exempt" any designated civilian from military service. In practice, this would mean not exemption but civilian service wherever the War Department thinks the citizen should be, would prevent a shortage of skilled labor and executive personnel in vital industries and areas. The Social Security Board's list of some 40,000,000 U. S. citizens, identified by age, residence, occupation will be very useful for this purpose...
...airplane is an instrument as vital and epoch-making as the telescope, the microscope and the camera. An hour in the air is worth a year on the surface in . . . understanding the works and ways...
...been conspicuous enough to irk the Old Guard, had simultaneously earned the warm regard of liberals by his solid good sense, extraordinary knowledge. Obvious choice for chairman of the new board, he soon became the obvious choice for president. At first it was planned to give this vital job to some high-powered bigwig. But as the new management completed the reorganization, it became apparent that no better symbol of the new day in Wall Street could be found than 31-year-old Bill Martin. Six weeks ago he got the job at $48,000 a year...
Thereupon the Governor took his drastic step. He ordered his soldiers to halt the NLRB proceedings, explained: "It is vital that the opposing parties . . . centre their attention on settlement of their differences." Said Maytag Attorney Edward Ford: "Rehashing the gripes of the men before a large crowd does not make for a peaceful atmosphere." Convinced that the company was trying to starve out the strikers the union professed to welcome martial intervention, said all that prevented settlement was Maytag's refusal to negotiate. Equally convinced that a State Governor lacked power to interfere with a Federal proceeding, NLRB ordered...
...Once again intolerance has raised its head in the midst of our political picture. ... If Mr. Winrod is nominated for the U. S. Senate, it will again be injected into the national campaign and our party in Kansas will be on the wrong side of a vital issue. . . . Disastrous effects!" Candidate Winrod, in his weekly radiorations over two Kansas stations and in his monthly magazine, The Defender, has made noises like a fascist : taken slaps at Jews and Catholics, gone hard after all Communists. Vowing that he is no fascist, he says: "Fascism is the illegitimate child of Communism...