Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China are not by any means the flower of the Mikado's legions, kept whistling loudly thus to keep up the Japanese people's courage...
...members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full flower. Also fired at one crack were more than a dozen other organizers including such potent veterans of last spring's strikes as Robert Kanter and Victor Reuther, brother of Walter Reuther. leader of the strong Detroit West Side local...
...gram of hormone. No subject has excited plant physiologists more than this in the past decade, and it has seen its major development in the last five years. Yet it was foreshadowed a half century ago by Julius von Sachs, a brilliant German who reasoned that roots and flowers must be produced by special chemical substances, root-forming and flower-forming, elaborated in plant tissue. The foundations of the science were laid about 1910 by Fitting of Germany, and by Boysen Jensen of Denmark. The latter cut off the tip of the leafsheaves in young oats. This stopped the stalk...
...early flower in the dazzling alphabetical garden of New Deal agencies, bureaus, authorities and commissions, the National Emergency Council appeared in December of 1933. Composed of Cabinet members and the heads of important bureaus, N. E. C.'s job was to co-ordinate all other New Deal agencies, let the public know what they were up to. Headed by two of the President's most trusted aides, first by Frank C. Walker, then by Donald Richberg, it produced two impressive blossoms: a press intelligence service, to let Federal organizations know what U. S. newssheets were saying about them...
Last week, about three weeks after Rexford Tugwell's Resettlement Administration was liquidated by the Department of Agriculture, the N. E. C., long recognized as no flower but a cumbersome New Deal weed, was uprooted by an executive order of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Except for its Press Intelligence service, which may continue under another bureau, its personnel of 251 will cease functioning December...