Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employment to 4,000,000 people. . . . Collective Bargaining. . . . Lifting the curse of child labor . . . starvation wages . . . excessive hours of labor . . . dishonorable competition." In a more defensive mood than usual, he admitted that NRA was not perfect but: "The fundamental purposes and principles of the act are sound. To abandon them is unthinkable...
...Huey's purpose was in this latest statement on his future, there is only one thing certain--he will never retire voluntarily from the national stage. Only when the patronizing American public, and the Louisiana portion of it in particular, decides to change its jester will the Kingfish really abandon the political scene...
Stand by to abandon ship...
...part of Sadie Thompson as Jeanne Eagels had, it was agreed that Tallulah Bankhead's Thompson was well worth watching. Where Jeanne Eagels' Sadie had seemed to maintain at least a vestige of hidden personal reserve, Tallulah Bankhead's flounced all over the stage with the abandon of the late Texas Guinan. In accounting for Miss Bankhead's failure to shade her various denunciations of the preacher who wanted to bring Sadie to salvation by way of a penitentiary sentence, only to fall prey to her allure, most commentators fell back on the observation that Miss...
...village where they are held captive Perken finds the French deserter he is looking for-blinded and chained to a grindstone. Though badly wounded, Perken bluffs their way free and they head for the mountains of his friendly tribes. But his wound festers and they have to abandon their precious bas-reliefs. Long before they reach the mountains they know that Perken at least will die, even if Claude escapes the pursuing Mois...