Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will make his headquarters in Washington. Kansas acquaintances do not expect Mrs. Hamilton to join him there, soon or ever. For his full-time services, the Committee decided to pay $15,000 per year, plus $10,000 for "base expenses." Cracked Insurgent Republican William Edgar Borah: "That, as I understand it, is the customary salary of receivers...
...understand that in your country there are certain marriages where the bridegroom has to be-shall we say, cajoled. You didn't by any chance bring a shotgun with...
Evening after his conference adjourned, Major Berry took to the radio, offered to resign as Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation if large industry would thereby be persuaded to cooperate. "Of course," boomed he, "I fully understand that there are those who previously declined to join us because they disliked the President and also because they disliked the representation of organized Labor. . . . Now they don't dislike the President. . . . They want to cooperate. But in order to cooperate with the Federal Government the President must get himself a new co-ordinator...
...lower American newspapers in popular esteem, to endanger the freedom of the press, and has even gone so far as to urge its members to breach the law. . . Your board recommended to its membership that 'no agreement be entered into with any group of employes.' As we understand the Wagner Act, it is obligatory upon employers to negotiate with representatives of a majority of employes in any department or craft. Any member of your association who enters into negotiation with employes when he has mental reservations not to make any agreement, only makes a pretense at negotiation...
...prejudiced by the liberal policies of Princeton and other colleges with which we are acquainted, but it is pretty hard to understand the grounds on which morality can thus be split up and classified. In fact we can hardly be blamed for indulging in a slightly self-satisfied smile because they stopped "legislating morals" on that subject here quite some time ago. -Daily Princetonian