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Word: abolishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Silver bloc which has crowded President Roosevelt month by month closer and closer toward bimetallism. His record of votes against the Administration's Recovery legislation gives a distorted view of his relations with the President. He was one of the ambitious little group that tried to abolish the two-thirds rule at the Democratic convention in Chicago, steamroller Governor Roosevelt's Presidential nomination. He is still a Roosevelt man, but votes his convictions on the Senate floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...order. Bartlett C. Tully of Anderson-Tully Co., one of the biggest hardwood units in the hardwood capital of Memphis, made haste to resign from the code authority because he shared in the Fisher order. Recruiting hundreds of allies the 62 defiant companies then asked the code authority to abolish price-fixing. Last week after the Memphis pow-wow their petition was flatly denied. NRA Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge threatened to crack down, declaring that the Department of Justice was ready to start suits against each & every one of the 62 dissenters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Order by Fisher | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

With pride the cotton textile industry points to itself as the biggest single industry in the U. S., because it employs more workers than any other. With equal pride NRA points to it as the first industry to take a code, the first to abolish child labor, cut hours, raise wages. So neither the industry nor the Administration could last week read with equanimity reports that every single employe of the U. S.'s biggest industry would soon be without a job as the result of a "national cotton textile strike," called by the United Textile Workers of America, affiliate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Pioneer Hardships | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Abolish the procedure which sent Adolf Hitler not to jail but to "detention in a fortress" after the failure of his seditious beer hall Putsch in 1923. According to the Ministry of Justice "Detention in a fortress can scarcely be continued, since in the totalitarian State neither the seditionist nor the traitor can very well receive honorable detention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hemlock & Pillory | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Their Lordships learned from Viscount Hailsham, Secretary for War, that the Irish Free State has refused to send a delegation to the Jubilee (May 6). On May 24 President de Valera's bill to abolish the Free State Senate and pave the way for proclamation of an Irish Republic is scheduled to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 13, 1934 | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

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