Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening a nation-wide drive for Community Chest funds, he announced that the Government "must more and more narrow the circle of its relief activities." warned relief agencies that "unless Federal taxes are to be greatly increased, the expenditures have to be brought within the existing tax receipts...
...have their popular leader Jimmy Walker quit the country under fire on the heels of the Seabury investigation of municipal vice and corruption in 192, and it was even harder to stomach the interference from Washington in the 1933 campaign, when an administration candidate, Joseph McKee split the ticket wide open and led to a Fusion victory. But to add insult to injury only last fall an enlightened electorate voted to adopt an entirely new charter, the final fruit of Judge Seabury's investigations, doing away with the great Tammany stronghold, the Board of Aldermen, in favor of a City...
...research energy has been and will continue to be devoted to a study of the "business" aspects of street and highway transport. This is especially demonstrated in its studies of new and more efficient types of street construction which it is gratifying to note is now receiving such wide attention...
...Then, I imagined the quarter-inch insect expanding to my size, with everything around it enlarging in proportion. It was a curious sensation-like breathing in and out-this contracting and expanding viewpoint. The six-foot ladybug, I perceived, would live in a world where grassblades would be as wide as a highway and would tower hundreds of feet in the air. Crickets twenty-four feet long would crawl through the grassroot jungles. Moths, with wings stretching more than 100 feet from tip to tip, would soar through the air at dusk. Bushes would have the appearance of frowning cliffs...
United Press editorial employes chose the Guild 277-to-84 as their nation-wide bargaining agency, opened the way for immediate negotiations between U. P. management and Guild authorities, who seek to cut the U. P. work week to five days and make other changes in U. P. employment conditions. Although the Guild demanded a National Labor Relations Board poll in May, delay followed a U. P. challenge that all bureau managers, even those with only one assistant, were executives and ineligible to vote. While the N.L.R.B. held hearings which decided this point in U. P.'s favor...