Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London one Emelia Tersini, waitress, suing monstrous Boxer Primo Carnera for breach of promise, was awarded ?4,200 ($14,300) on the strength of letters from Carnera saying, "Dear Treasure of Mine. . . . Our little nest of love. . . . You can have trust in your Primo because he loves you with all his heart and soul...
...provide that a breach of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact "is a matter of interest to all parties . . . and . . . that in the event of a breach or the threat of a breach of the Pact there is to be a conference between the parties if any five of them, including one at least of the Great Powers, so request...
This action follows the assertion of the University administration, expressed through R. L. Westcott '16, Manager of the University dining halls, that to serve beer in the dining halls would be a breach of a long standing policy. Other authorities have expressed the opinion that such a stand was taken because of the fear that unfavorable publicity would attend the inclusion of beer on the University's menus. In conducting the poll, the CRIMSON wishes to sound out and give lively expression to student opinion on the issue...
...gasped three years ago when blatant Huey Pierce Long, then Governor of Louisiana, hoisted himself out of bed in pajamas and received a full-dress courtesy call from the commander of the German cruiser Emden. In Veracruz, Mexico, never, never would Mayor Epigmenio Guzman be guilty of such a breach of etiquet. Last fortnight the British cruiser Norfolk dropped anchor in Veracruz bearing in her stern cabin none less than the Commander-in-Chief of Britain's America & West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax...
...right of the public to accurate knowledge of the financial functions of its government. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has no prerogative to the secrecy which has been denied the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Federal Reserve Board. Although it is futile to talk of imminent dictatorships, so palpable a breach of public confidence as privacy in this matter would have entailed is certainly incongruous with a republican sanction. And there were, moreover, many details in the report which proved illuminating to the political observer, such as the staggering loans made to a Corporation member's bank on the day after...