Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless matters clear up pretty noticeably next year, Harvard will have to step into the breach with her own poll. While we may not have a choice for "best build" or "smoothest" we can certainly do justice to the assets of our own senior class and think up some fairly conclusive titles which will open the eyes of big business to the diamonds lying rough in the graduating body. Self promotion never hurts and if "biggest liar" of Class of '37 is called into a nationally known advertising firm or if "biggest bore" is eagerly sought as a political leader...
...fines. Loudly he declared that he would not pay a cent. Loudly he demanded that Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding and contempt of court constituted a breach of the peace-one constitutional ground for a Congressman's arrest. After much argument behind closed doors, Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor was told off to go and pay the fines. Out the court building's back door soon slipped the two Congressmen. To newshawks...
...President smarts under the unsympathetic reports they write about his Administration, Columnists Kent, Sullivan & Lawrence now fail to appear at White House Press conferences or maintain a dignified silence when Mr. Roosevelt talks to reporters. Not until last week, however, was a public issue made of the breach between President and press critics...
...Chinese Foreign Office to protest. With a face blandly childlike the Nationalist Foreign Minister, General Chang Chun, insisted that not only was there no truth in this story but that the Nationalist Government had sent a sharp note to Moscow protesting the Soviet-Mongolian agreement as a breach of Russia's 1924 pledge recognizing China's sovereignty over Outer Mongolia...
...With what right do others accuse us of a breach of treaty?" was General Hermann Wilhelm Göring's contribution to Nazi electioneering at Dortmund. "The world cannot condemn us. We Germans alone have the right to judge our own actions! By its ballots the German people will deliver judgment on March...