Word: point
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountains of high grade iron ore and limestone, two of the essentials for making iron or steel, where the material can be quarried and placed on belts that take it directly to the vessel and then the limestone and iron ore can be taken by water to any point on Puget Sound, and at all times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail to the docks, load it into the ore carriers, then unload at the foot of the lakes, then ship...
...remaining mainstay, solid old Pierce Butler, died (TIME, Nov. 27). In silence last week he heard Justice Owen Roberts read the majority decision reaffirming the civil liberties of the U. S. citizen, proclaim the right to pamphleteer without a police license.* The decision presented no new point of Constitutional doctrine, but to many a thoughtful U. S. citizen came as a solemn reminder, in anxious days, that beneath the stated rights of citizenship lies a rock-founded base guaranteeing their preservation...
...costly, disputatious confusion, the immediate issue between Harry Bridges and the employers was notably narrow. Normally employed on the San Francisco water front are some 1,300 clerks and checkers-key workers, because they are the ones who keep tabs on cargo, representing shippers and shipowners at the loading point. All but 2% of these vital ciphers are Bridges' men. To bring the 2% into the union, the 98% struck. Whereupon their bosses closed the port, last week rejected all offers of compromise. They hoped to preserve the principle of free hiring in one last corner of Mr. Bridges...
...last few years the Council has grown from a tiny and neglected group into a large and flourishing organization, with a highly successful record of debates with other colleges, over the radio, and among the Houses. To deprive the Council of funds at this point would mean to destroy it at the very moment when it had finally proved workable and useful. Yesterday's forum on presidential possibilities was only an example of the consistently interesting meetings being sponsored by the Council...
There is another small point. Shaw speaks of the ills of the industry that forced him to leave. These exist. But they weren't made to order for Arthur Shaw. Everyone in the business knows about them and allows for them. Shaw had been playing for enough years when he started as a leader to know what he was up against. The plain facts are that he didn't have any guts. Goodman didn't change his style to get to the top--he stuck to his guns and starved far longer than Shaw to get to the top. Count...