Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keep a boot wedged in the Open Door. This would mean taking a strong line against Japan-not only by keeping the flag above the Philippines but by resisting every Japanese advance in China and the East Indies; and would presuppose a willingness to oppose Japan with arms if necessary. After two years as High Commissioner to the Philippines, Paul Vories McNutt returned to the U. S. as a burning apostle of this view. The present High Commissioner, Francis Bowes Sayre, is a rabid convert to it. And it is a good bet that some time soon Filipino President Manuel...
Main terms of the settlement: A board of two corporation executives, two national union officers will handle appeals from the shops, by unwritten understanding may call in a fifth arbiter when necessary. The corporation won a continued open shop, Chrysler will continue to set production speeds without consulting the union-but gripes about speeds may be appealed to the grievance board. The union succeeded in throwing out the old, ineffective ban against any & all strikes, gave an absolute pledge not to sitdown, stayin, slowdown. On wages, the union asked a general 10?-per-hour boost for Chrysler...
...clean air again, along Lake Michigan behind some of the biggest sand dunes in the world. Carl Sandburg's place is on top of a dune a mile or so from the Harbert post office. On the land side the house is a triple decker, the top deck open and sunny. The front porch looks over ten miles of beach through the crests of some tall pines. Inside it is the kind of house a good workman likes to have for his family...
...wisdom of increasing even slightly the proportion of junior teachers in a university where it is already the practice to futurst a great deal of the undergraduate instruction to the less experienced teachers is open to serious question on educational grounds." Stone says...
...while quoting the Bible or the Declaration of Independence. But while France and England can fight to save their empires and still succeed in selling the idea that they are battling for "the oppressed peoples of the world," Russia's clumsy justifications for invading Finland are salt in an open wound...