Word: label
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even George Berry's enemies admit that everything about him is big. He has been president since 1907 of the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America (50,000 members). He owns the biggest color-label printing plant in the U. S., at Rogersville, Tenn., and outside Rogersville the biggest farm in the Southeast (30,000 acres). It was thus a foregone conclusion that when George Berry began buying up mineral leases among farmers in the area later flooded by the TVA's Norris Dam, the marble he was looking for would turn...
Lumber was by no means Portland's only sore spot. There was trouble in garages and warehouses. The surrounding area was worried by a California butchers' boycott on Oregon turkey.* A. F. of L. teamsters were still boycotting beer carrying the red union label of A. F. of L. Brewery Workers, Dave Beck having manned most Northwest breweries with beery teamsters whose product bears a white union label. Portland beer parlors serving ''red label" have had their windows smashed with monotonous regularity...
...rules, rayon producers are ordered to label their goods specifically throughout the manufacturing and distributing process. If a scarf is part silk, but mostly rayon, it must be labeled "rayon-silk." If it is mostly silk it is to be labeled "silk-rayon." Makers who have sought to avoid the stigma that sometimes is attached to the name rayon by concocting trade and process names like Celanese, Bemberg and acetate may still use them, but must also label the goods as rayon. Sample: "Bemberg-rayon...
...common device of the propagandist, said he, is to pin a bad name" on his opposition. Worst name in the Middle Ages was "heretic " Today it is "Red." Thus in the last national election Publisher William Randolph Hearst called Candidate Roosevelt a Red Billed Propagandist Roosevelt countered with the label "Economic Royalists." To take emotionalism and prejudice out of labels, Analyst Miller proposes to study what the name means, whether it is truly applied, who uses it, why. Marked for early treatment by the institute are the Propagandas swirling about Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, Henry Ford Tom Mercer...
...fewer than three institutions offered courses in international relations under the dramatic label of WAR! At New York University's General Education Division, The Next War was to be illustrated by maps of the theatres of the coming conflict, by snapshots and movies of European military forces taken by Professor Charles Hodges. At Hobart College motion pictures of the World War were to be shown in a course on War & Peace. In The Problem of War Wesleyan University promised to prescribe "practical, effective steps for preventing...