Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft Chunk, chunk sounded from the press benches as pneumatic tubes carried down to the press room below the news that the Supreme Court was about to pass on the AAAct in a test case brought by the Government against a New England textile mill regarding the cotton processing tax (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante). In slow precise tones, seldom consulting the written opinion that lay before him, Mr. Justice Roberts proceeded to outline the law and the nature of the case. For some minutes none of the hearers in the crowded courtroom knew which way the decision would...
...Chunk . . . chunk . . . chunk, chunk. The pneumatic tubes shot the news to a waiting world. AAA was dead as NRA. Once again the Supreme Court had knocked a prime prop from under the New Deal...
...Imperial Businessman had instructed Al Smith's publicity director, Josef Israels II. to tell the world that His Majesty was willing to settle on terms only slightly more generous to Ethiopia than those offered by The Deal of Hoare & Laval. He was willing to yield a great chunk of his empire in exchange for peace and a corridor to the Red Sea. The resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare and the tribulations of Premier Laval last week caused the Imperial Businessman to propose a completely New Deal. Ethiopia's new "basis for discussion," with which...
...Because of the formidable nature of this operation, an effort is now being made to develop a modification of the splanchnic nerve resection," said Dr. Adson who explained that he removes only a section of the twelfth pair of ribs, cuts a few handy sympathetic nerves, excises a chunk from each adrenal gland...
...impressed with the future of technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October...