Word: canceling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such last week was the clinical history of a sensationally severe toothache which, complicated by an attack of indigestion caused by the squab chicken he ate at the National Press Club dinner last fortnight, caused Franklin Roosevelt to cancel all engagements for four days. The engagements included two press conferences, a speech at Mt. Vernon which Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace delivered in his stead, a conference with utility company heads which was postponed to this week. It did not cause him to cancel a chat with Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, which took place in his private quarters...
...weeks before his death last December, 78-year-old Philanthropist Mc-Kinlock asked the Northwestern trustees to cancel his contract to finance the campus. His holdings had depreciated so greatly during the Depression that he could not meet his pledges. Last week Northwestern made public an agreement which showed, that far from being spiteful towards a former benefactor who had had misfortune, it had made an arrangement with him to change the name of its campus and refund to the McKinlock family in five annual installments $155,717 which he had already paid...
...discussing the value of modern historical esiticiam of the Bibble Professor Nash stated that there is a tendency "to cancel out facts becomes different interpretations vary in Belmont defiles. Modern study, however, has gives us a more regards and a vernacular text...
Transition- Year before last the Court's nine old men were bathed in historic limelight when they waded into the New Deal's first crop of economic measures, invalidating NRA and AAA and upholding the Government's right to cancel the gold clauses in all contracts. Last term the nine were the centre of a political death struggle unequaled since the Civil War, brought about by Franklin Roosevelt's desire to insure the constitutionality of his future legislative program by adding sympathetic Justices to the bench. The excitement of the current court term will be different...
...please don't cancel my subscription...