Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...code authorities that he was opposed to arbitrary flat reduction of the work week for all industry. Yet Congressmen are much inclined to favor a bill for a 30-hour week. If it were passed allowing no exceptions the President would veto it. If it were passed allowing him wide discretion in its application, he might accept...
...Socialist pledges in behalf of the workers." Lined up against him were the three Laborites who finally made common cause with the Conservatives and survived Labor's great fall in 1931: MacDonald, Philip Snowden and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. The two factions in the Cabinet split wide on Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's plan to break unemployment by huge public works plans. Old George was for it; the Three against it. They split wider on unemployment insurance payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties and impaired credit," favored increasing the premiums or reducing the benefits. Old George wanted neither...
...devoted to the study of behavior in anthropoid apes. His most famous work, "The Mentality of Apes," is recognized as the authoritative document on the subject. He has published many other books in the same field, among them important investigations of the intelligence of chimpanzees, which have won world-wide renown. Professor Kohler has been in the United States several times on lecture tours and is the brother of Wilhelm R. W. Kohler, recently appointed full professor in Fine Arts. The two previous incumbents of the William James chair were Professor John Dewey of Columbia, and Professor Arthur O. Lovejoy...
...mail service has completely broken down. Formal orders by the President, that the army curtail in operations and confine flying to a few essential routes really means the Pencial disruption of nation wide schedules of delivery...
Headquarters of a nation-wide fight against disease are the Council's offices in Manhattan. Centered there are 17 health-education bodies, including the American Child Health Association, American Public Health Association, National Tuberculosis Association, each with its thousands of local chapters throughout the land. The Council gives them a common meeting-ground, helps them to cooperate and avoid duplication in surveys and campaigns. It also provides a common clerical, telephone, information, printing & storage service...