Word: precursors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course to the State Department has followed a different route from that of Hay, Root, or Hughes, who had a firm belief in a set of established philosophical values. Acheson belongs to a more experimental school. Like his friends, Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, and their own precursor, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he is more apt to believe that ethical and legal principles can not be so rigidly fixed; their touchstone is whether an action appears to be good in the light of the needs of the day. It was and is a philosophy generally regarded as "civilized," and Dean Acheson...
Bearded, 15th Century Nicolas de Flue is worshiped by all Switzerland as a national hero, and was regarded by Luther and Zwingli as a precursor of the Reformation. Last week, with trumpets, processions, floodlights and a pontifical High Mass, he became a Roman Catholic saint...
...avowed aim of Congress in 1935, when it passed the Wagner Act. But the 80th Congress now thought that the hard facts of industrial strife had demonstrated the fallacy in congressional thinking twelve years ago. From an annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 workers before the NRA, precursor of the Wagner Act, the strike chart had climbed to 4,985 strikes involving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. Annual average of man-days lost before...
...pursued by the Senior group, closely followed by Natural Sciences, and far in the rear was Arts, Letters, and Philosophy. The realm of Social Studies was the training ground for the majority of men planning business careers. This field shared honors with the area of Natural Sciences as the precursor of work in the field of teaching and other professions...
Charges of graft involving Schmitz, Boss Abe Reuf, the Southern Pacific Co.'s subsidiary United Railways (precursor of the Market St. Railway) grew so loud that even tolerant San Franciscans were aroused. The only reason they did not act immediately was because of a louder noise. The earth moved. The city tumbled down in dust and fire. When San Franciscans, recovering from the earthquake, found time, they clapped Reuf in jail...