Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense, the Court held, that Comrade Miguschenko, like most political advisers of Soviet sea captains, knew nothing of seamanship himself. The prosecutor next flayed the seamen for not mutinying anyhow to save the tanker: "We must abolish the outrageous behavior of some seamen who still cling to the disgusting traditions of Capitalist fleets!"-i. e. obedience to captain's orders...
...jurisdiction. This means that before a holding company receives a return on its investment in a subsidiary, the dividend must first be authorized by the Commission. Finally, as all the world knows, SEC must order holding companies to limit themselves to "a single integrated system" (with certain exceptions), must abolish all holding companies more than twice removed from their operating subsidiaries. Such changes, however, cannot come before Jan. 1, 1938, may even be postponed...
Social Credit Is What? Few Alberta voters seemed to know much about Social Credit last week, merely having faith in Messiah Aberhart's assurances that it is not Communist, does not seek to abolish private property or Capitalism and is a positive sock at "The Bankers...
...which has as its avowed object the violent overthrow of the U. S. and all other non-Communist governments. Yet, knowing this, the President accepted assurances from Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff which meant nothing at all if they did not mean that Dictator Stalin would abolish the Comintern or move it out of Russia. Since this was never contemplated, Soviet leaders have assumed from the first that Mr. Roosevelt was joining them in an elaborate political pretense. Last week many Reds were amazed when bald, able U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt marched into the Soviet Foreign Office...
...also write English. Author (News Photography), longtime chief cameraman for the late New York World and now a Manhattan free lance, Jack Price has long campaigned for the improvement of his unpopular trade by supplying all reporters with cameras to take their own pictures. This procedure would effectively abolish Jack Price's vocation, except for the fact that reporters stubbornly dis dain so practical an accomplishment as photography. Jack Price's trade, how ever, is now further than ever from extinction, because newspaper publishers have discovered that news pictures help circulation and enormously improve their newspapers' appearance...