Word: abets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brave, my dear editor, for having shown the underlying current of your policy to aid and abet the movement to overthrow our blessed institutions, yes, to undermine the very roots of our government...
...Bruce Blakeley (Harvey Stephens) to support and abet his trying tribe. When his business blessedly fails, he evokes not their sympathy but their ungrateful scorn. Whereupon he does what he has been trying to do all the time, marries his divorcée sweetheart (Katherine Alexander, no kin to Ross), rids himself of his family responsibilities. The party, he tells them in a forceful farewell address, is over...
While Wall Street knows that Senator Norbeck will do his best to throttle short sales, that Senator Carter Glass will aid and abet him, it hoped for judicial treatment from Connecticut's Senator Frederic Collin Walcott, onetime vice president in the banking house of Bonbright & Co. A close personal and political friend of the President's, Senator Walcott together with Senator James Couzens persuaded the Committee to investigate bulls as well as bears. "We are not seeking sensational-ism," he said. "And we are going about this in a sane way. There is no intention ... to seek legislation interfering with...