Word: busting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asbury Winslow. Congressman La Guardia of New York called for the kind of investigation, by the House Judiciary Committee, that generally precedes impeachment. Countering, Judge Winslow said it was all "a diabolical plot." The chief citation against him was that he had suspended sentence on a ''crooked bust'' named Meyer Kaplan in return for an "understanding" which, when subsequently not fulfilled, caused Buster Kaplan to be jailed for the full sentence...
Five years ago Jo Davidson traveled in Russia for several weeks with Senator La Follette. On their return to Paris a bust and some sketches were made. The Senator departed. The sculptor never saw him again. When he set to work three years ago on the La Follette statue, the La Follette family sent him clothes, shoes and gloves that had been worn by the deceased Senator...
Among U. S. jazz band leaders, Conductor Abraham Lyman is esteemed as able, cunning, shrewd. Nonetheless "Conductor Abie" was chaffed at when he recently announced that he would "buck and bust" the absolute embargo which the British Ministry of Labor has maintained since 1925 against professional U. S. jazz-folk...
...bust came, last week, when Britannia's owners, the Inveresk Pulp & Paper Co., found that the 33 pages of advertising per issue with which the magazine was launched had shrunk to four. Tactful requests that Editor Frankau modify his Lunatic-Fascist policies caused him to apply for an injunction restraining Inveresk Ltd. from interfering with his conduct of their paper. Since the editor had a contract, the only thing to do was buy him off. He held out last week for ?12,000-nearly $60,000-and finally got it. Wherefor the smug airs, the sherry...
...time and made up with a solemn pledge never to play together again. We were happy together until Aug. 19. We were at the home of friends and they brought out the bridge table. Mr. Wood doubled a one no trump bid and I, disgusted with a bust hand, forgot to take him out of it. Again he hit me and we have been separated ever since...