Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal reputation and because Depression had deprived most engineers of jobs. Many of his staff could be counted on to quit with him and they could not be replaced. More important, however, if Arthur Morgan should quit, those persons would be grieved who would like to see the breach between the utilities and the New Deal healed. If Mr. Lilienthal should quit those would be grieved who would like to see the Government bring final retribution on the utilities...
...your association, founded to benefit and strengthen the daily newspapers of this country, has in the last few years so conducted itself as to lower American newspapers in popular esteem, to endanger the freedom of the press, and has even gone so far as to urge its members to breach the law. . . Your board recommended to its membership that 'no agreement be entered into with any group of employes.' As we understand the Wagner Act, it is obligatory upon employers to negotiate with representatives of a majority of employes in any department or craft. Any member of your...
When U. S. bankers made their peace with the Administration in 1934, the manufacturers stepped into the breach, became the President's most violent non-political detractors. That the Nation's industrialists were now going to "cooperate" with the White House if it killed them was manifest from the quantity and quality of NAM members' pacific protestations...
...which has kept 99% of His Majesty's subjects in England and India from ever hearing of Mrs. Simpson, much less hearing that the King is resolved to marry her. The Yorkshire Post does not actually mention Mrs. Simpson by name but opens the censorship breach sufficiently for the London Times to "thunder" at the King next morning (still without naming Mrs. Simpson) and for the London News Chronicle, largely owned by the Cadbury's chocolate family, to be the first paper in the Kingdom to name the King's intended wife...
...divorce, resumed her maiden name. Although Shaw recognized that it was his own fault for not having told her how he felt before she married, he could never get over a feeling she should have known it anyway, still regards the mix up "as the most monstrous breach of faith in the history of romance...