Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field against Boss Guffey is Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan, Philadelphia lawyer, professor of international law at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Lawyer Morris' style is cramped because he was distinctly not a "For Roosevelt Before Chicago" man. Widest primary breach exists between Governor Pinchot and David Aiken Reed, fighting to succeed himself as Pennsylvania's senior Republican Senator. Before taking to the hustings, Mr. Reed had fortified himself in the Senate by embracing the American Legion's entire veterans' program. But his main issue was the unimaginative...
...crown jewels of France. My father's mother bought it. . . . She willed it to my father, Col. John Jacob Astor. He willed it to me. I hope they return it. It's one of our oldest heirlooms." Of a report that a $2,000,000 breach of promise suit would be filed against him, young Astor declared: "People can sue for lots of things, but she can't sue me. She was the one who broke the engagement." Of his tour, wistfully: "I don't suppose that you want to know anything about my trip?" Said...
...point out." said he, "that in permitting the resolution to be introduced I am not agreeing that there has been a breach of Privilege, but merely ruling that the Right Honorable Member from Epping in Essex has made out a prima facie case to that effect...
...press" as a defense against an NRA newspaper code. It scolded its brothers for resisting Child Labor laws against newsboys and openly stated that it hoped to eliminate all newsboys from its own circulation system. It regularly whangs New York's archaic divorce laws and the breach of promise racket. It promised not to heckle President Roosevelt for one year following his inauguration, has since March 4, 1934 continued to support him by choice...
...admitted that money is increasingly becoming concentrated in the hands of a few and that small incomes are becoming smaller. Unless Roosevelt takes a firm stand on the issues he enunciated during his campaign, not only he, but the administration itself must be accused of a breach of faith...