Word: moratorium
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They see the fight between men and machines as the central drama of our time, but they think the solution lies in controlling machines, not hating them. The great industrial novel, they contend, will be written when men cease dreaming of such sentimentalities as a return to handicraft, a moratorium on inventions. Such a novel, they prophesy, will find its ideal subject in the automobile industry...
Against: TVA amendments, holding company "health sentence," Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, munitions embargo, Anti-Lynching, Reorganization, the $1,500,000,000 relief fund for 1938, AAA II conference report, Wages-&-Hours...
...story is a different kettle of fish from the old Ford story. There was always an implicit affection or admiration in the Tin Lizzie jokes: but there is nearly always an undercurrent of hatred in the stories about Franklin Roosevelt. Unwilling to foster that feeling, TIME herewith declares a moratorium on such Rooseveltiana...
...voted against reciprocal tariffs, the Court bill, Reorganization, the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, permanent CCC, Wages-&-Hours, AAA II, both the 1937 and 1938 Relief bills. He explains his opposition mostly on grounds of economy, but he voted to override the President's veto of the 1936 bonus bill, the biggest Treasury raid in Congressional history. His fellow Republicans value him not as a legislator but as an oratorical shock trooper. Imposing, hawk-nosed, witty, a voluptuous lover of words, Congressman Short is willing to talk on almost anything, sometimes does so memorably...
...baseball fans. The Cubs were in third place in the National League pennant race, had just won seven games in a row before losing to the resurgent Dodgers, and their $185,000 investment in Dizzy Dean's pitching arm had paid its first dividend (after a two-month moratorium) in the form of a four-hit victory over the Boston Bees...