Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor to replace the present hit-or-miss system which keeps even the President of the U. S. ignorant as to the number of jobless. The other bill would establish a $150,000,000 public building program which the U. S. on short notice could swing into the breach of any future labor depression. Enactment of these measures was anticipated...
...remains to be seen whether the Government will tolerate, as they have tolerated our march, actual breach of the salt laws by countless people...
...York Stock Exchange. On the chief U. S. market, January resulted in sales of only 62,308,290 shares against 110,803,940 in booming January of 1929. In February the breach was narrowed, by the end of March sales for the first quarter, bolstered by the reappearance of 5,000,000 share days, were 227,579,470 against 294,410,000 last year. But in March 1930 there were 1,300 issues listed, a gain of 100 over March...
...newly inaugurated competitor of P. A. A., the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires east coast line had to deposit $100,000 in a Brazilian bank as security to release four of its planes for service. The planes were impounded because Companhia Empreza de Transortes Aereos, a Brazilian concern, claimed breach of some contract. In the teeth of these tribulations, however, the first air mail from the east coast of South America arrived in Manhattan last week triumphantly carried up by NYRBA...
Sued. George J. Gillespie, Sr., president of New York City's Board of Water Supply; by Mrs. Frances Marion Brandon, New York City's Assistant Corporation Counsel; for $574,165; for breach of promise (marriage), fraud. Mrs. Brandon testified that, under his religio-erotic influence, she had turned clients over to Mr. Gillespie, that he had kept $74,165 in fees...