Word: chocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnecessary Progress and political Pork. Last fortnight both houses of South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this bill and the Santee-Cooper project, to cost...
Before me lies the latest issue of the "Harvard Guardian," as chock-full as its prodecessors with exciting stuff. The leading feature of this issue is "Sorokin and the Dangerous Science. It consists of three articles by distinguished members of the faculty, discussing the three volumes of Professor Sorokin's "magnum opus...
Whoever succeeds James McCauley Landis as chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission this fall will inherit not only old problems but a portfolio chock-full of new and zestful business. Milestones in the Commission's career last week were: 1) the first arrest brought about by SEC lawyers, and 2) the first application for reorganization filed with SEC under the Public Utility Holding Company...
...American College of Surgeons, Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan, complain recently. Partly because of Dr. Pool's complaint, mainly because he has a fine, two-fingered feel for medical necessities, Editor Thurston Scott Welton of the American Journal of Surgery last week produced a 416-page issue chock-full with 87 articles about the minor surgery which an ordinary doctor can perform in his own office. Dr. Pool blessed Editor Welton's venture. So did the president of the American Medical Association Surgeon Charles Gordon Heyd of Manhattan. And Philadelphia's self-controlled Surgeon William Wayne...
Anyone who at this time could step in and curb the prevailing war psychology which is becoming increasingly popular should immediately be considered a "Man-of-the-Year" candidate. The article "Munitions Men," TIME. March 5, was a masterful article, chock-full of facts, an article which should entitle the author to "Man-of-the-Year" honors if widely enough circulated and read to have effect...