Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduce him to the Prince, for whom he had worked in Alaska, and of course I agreed. As we sat down, Caetani was on my right and on my left was the Mayor of Spokane. Addressing the Ambassador, I said: ''Your Excellency, permit me to introduce Mr. Blank, the Mayor of the city," to which of course Caetani made a gracious but reserved response. Mr. Blank, greatly embarrassed, whispered in my left ear: "Say, I don't know how to talk to this 'ere European royalty." Then I spotted my friend Belts, and gave...
...Macy's automatic electric toaster. Finally when May requested the creature to raise its arm and fire the pistol, the arm went up, the metal forefinger pulled the trigger, the firing-pin fell with a click. Professor May explained that store officials would not permit him to use blank cartridges...
...interview with Professor Chamberlin printed in last Saturday's CRIMSON, he is reported as saying: "Looking backward, it seems no loss than a nightmare that business should have been handed a blank check, as it was under General Johnson, to 'govern itself' with no thought for the consequences. . . Much of the power which largo industrialists have secured for themselves with government sanction will never be retaken from them." It is this in the New Deal that I object to; it is this objection which any honest person should object to. It is the taxing of the bread and meat...
...conclusion, Mr. Chamberlin remarked "there are good reasons for thinking that the public interest will be distinguished from that of business and be more effectively heard in the future. Looking backward, it seems no less than a nightmare that business should have been handed a blank check, as it was under General Johnson, to 'govern itself' with no thought for the consequences. The present set-up of boards makes it much more possible to look at problems from several angles instead of only one. for a long time to come, however, public gains will be realized only slowly, and much...
William Bloor has been the signalman at Winwick Junction for 21 years. A tall, middleaged, careful-minded, precise-spoken Briton who had never before had an accident on his section, he spoke with genuine puzzlement: ''So far as the down line is concerned, my mind is a blank...