Word: void
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uppers & Lowers. WLB's added powers were something new in the history of New Deal labor relations. Under Presidential decree, WLB now has the authority to withhold the dues of a recalcitrant union, to cancel its contract, to void any and all union benefits. The board can also recommend to the War Manpower Commission a change in the draft status of noncomplying union members...
...Family: "In the family the nation finds the natural and fecund roots of its greatness and power. ... A so-called civil progress would ... be unnatural which - either through the excessive burdens imposed, or through exaggerated direct interference - were to render private property void of significance, practically taking from the family and its head the freedom to follow the scope set by God for the perfection of family life...
Free Air. Five years ago that realm was almost void of radio pundits. Today there are about 60 of them on the four big national networks-plus a host of straight news broadcasters and at least one would-be local pundit for most of the 900-odd U.S. stations. Their combined impact is superseding the newspaper as America's Page-One-news source...
...exam period, yet there was something more. Something that could have been frightening except that it was mixed with a certain gasp of relief, a feeling that had to come after months of school without a break, months when academic routine and peering into books failed to fill the void of inactivity in a world of action...
...Roosevelt visited Montgomery, Ala. a fortnight ago on his then-secret cross-country tour of war plants and army bases, many a Montgomery citizen saw him or heard about it. The censorship-bound Montgomery Advertiser, unable to print the news, angrily carried on its Page One a brief item, void of names, saying: "Yes, the Advertiser knows that he was here yesterday. . . . Nearly everybody else in Montgomery knows he was here-when he arrived and when he departed. If the details ... are still interesting when the lords of free speech in Washington decide to let the news be printed...