Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maker who was the first to sign up with C. I. O.'s union in 1937. "What it cannot do is to decide quarrels as between contending factions." In eleven plants, where both C. I. O. and Martin claim jurisdiction, G. M. will deal with neither. In 48, whether one or the other has exclusive representation, the corporation will continue to deal with local union committees. Meantime, pending decision of the rival claims by the courts or the National Labor Relations Board, G. M. will not talk amendment (or, in effect, renewal) of its national contract with either union...
...adventurous Anne Morrow. With earnest, adventurous (but not poetic) Charles Lindbergh she had much in common. After their wedding at Englewood his war with the press grew more bitter. Newshawks and cameramen hounded them on their honeymoon. A few weeks later in a mass interview, a reporter asked Lindbergh whether his wife was pregnant yet. He whitened with anger...
...appeasers," of Britain and France, he had nothing but scorn. He recalled that British and French statesmen (such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Premier Edouard Daladier) had once glorified "the successes of the ill-starred Munich agreement," and now he questioned whether they had really changed at heart. Some correspondents wondered if the Soviet's price for Russian cooperation with France and Britain was the political heads of Appeasers Chamberlain and Daladier...
Great Unknowns. That outline is not yet definitive because there are several big imponderables. It is not known for certain who may fight whom; in stacking up the armed forces of the world against each other it is not certain for example whether Japan is to be counted as one of the Axis powers, or because of her involvement in China she may remain neutral ; it is equally uncertain whether Russia may belong to the Democratic front or be a neutral; it is even uncertain whether the U. S. will be a neutral or a member of the Democratic front...
...judge any program by whether I think it tends to distribute power and bring about equilibrium, whether it tends to destroy privilege, whether it subjects itself to reason and measures itself by criteria-the chief criterion in the economic field being the release of productive energy. My program, which is the program of a journalist, and not the program of a person with any political ambitions whatsoever, is to try to make more people think along these lines...