Word: waverers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last murmur before giving in, the National Association of Broadcasters moved to have the regulations threshed out in public hearings. Meantime no short-waver signed up any advertising accounts, and one even so far endangered international good will as to broadcast to Germany in German how No. i U. S. Nazi, Bundfiihrer Fritz Kuhn, was arrested in Pennsylvania after an indictment charging grand larceny...
...China watched breathlessly to see whether the Cantonese military leaders would resist Japan or waver in the allegiance which nearly all Chinese have shown to Chiang Kaishek, "The Great Unifier." His entourage last week put the blame on Neville Chamberlain, attributed the Japanese drive on Canton to collapse of British prestige at Munich and predicted that not only will the Cantonese fight but their resistance will so overextend Japan that it will cost...
...battle heat, Scotsman Murray's burred goddams can be softly terrible, Lithuanian-born Sidney Hillman's dat-for-that accent becomes a cracking sputter. Murray & Hillman burred and sputtered to good effect. Several of Martin's dozen boardmen began to waver. One night Messrs. Murray & Hillman added up their gains, convinced Homer Martin that he might as well convene his board and get it over. He capitulated...
...Expelled all but one of the seven C.I.O. unions which retained nominal ties with the Federation. Exception was the potent International Ladies Garment Workers Union, whose peace-minded President David Dubinsky continues to waver between his devotion to C.I.O. industrial-union principles and his opposition to the projected formation of a permanent organization of C.I.O. affiliates. Three weeks ago Attorney Padway, who previously has represented I.L.G.W.U., lunched with Mr. Dubinsky, inspired a reasonable guess that no small part of the general counsel's duties in the near future will be to woo the waverer, invite him and the union...
...course the vertical needle on the dial will waver to one side. If he is off the glide beam, the horizontal needle rises or falls...