Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organized labor." The Guild ordered its membership out, claimed 40 newsmen from the Post-Intelligencer's staff of 68 answered the strike call. A picket line around the publishing plant was formed, aided by the redoubtable Teamsters', Loggers' and Longshoremen's unions. Careful to explain that they "were not on a sympathetic strike," the Post-Intelligencer's typographical men simply refused to pass through the tough picket lines to & from work...
...explain all these circumstances, as usual, baffled everyone. After a week of investigation by Air Commerce Director Eugene L. Vidal himself, no one had produced a better explanation than Chicago & Southern's President Carleton Putnam. Numbed by the first fatal accident in his company's three-year history, he groaned: "It was one of those things that can't happen but still...
...priest's action caused a painful impression here. We have received thousands of letters on the subject. But the Holy Father does not desire to take action on the matter unless in conjunction with the Bishop of the diocese. Bishop Gallagher is coming on his own initiative, to explain his ideas in regard to Father-how do you say} Coshlin? Cooglin...
...Party program but confined himself to straight-forward criticism, bold but not bitter, vigorous but not violent, scorching but not sarcastic. Excerpts: "An endless succession of interferences and experiments was inaugurated under the deceptive slogan of a new deal. This policy of government by guess, officially explained by President Roosevelt as founded on a philosophy of try-anything-once, was initiated under the title of economic planning. No one of its proponents has even been able to define the New Deal or to explain what it is aimed at or where it is going. No one of them has been...
Said Mr. Kennedy ominously: "It would be little short of criminal, if, on the threshold of prosperity for the industry, this opportunity to eliminate waste and substitute profits were to be passed by without action. It might subsequently be difficult to explain such inaction to litigious stockholders or to enquiring Congressional committees...