Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day, though, something like a plan began to emerge. A significant paragraph in Justice Roberts' AAA decision had said it was illegal for Congress to contract with farmers to submit to government regulation, but that Congress could still appropriate money to be spent under specific conditions to achieve a constitutional end. Therefore, let the Government, without making contracts to regulate future production, pay farmers after performance for conserving the fertility of their soil. Conservation of a natural resource might be construed as in "the general Welfare" although the chief means of conservation might be withdrawing land from cultivation...
Long before the execution, Condon had entered into a contract with a sensational magazine for a series of articles entitled "Jafsie Tells All". Today, as Bruno Richard Hauptmann nears the death chair, as the New Jersey court of pardons turns down his plea for a respite and as the public sithers in a wave of doubt and high-feeling, Governor Hoffman hurls the credulous and timely challenge-Condon has not told all And implication adds:-he knows far more than he has told and he is fleeing the country in fear...
Sirs: This from West Virginia's Maxwell, dissenting in Bell v. Gas Company, decided July 25, 1935, and reported in 181 S.E. 609, should be included in your anthology on "and/or." "The involvements of the contract are accentuated by the frequent use of the baffling symbol 'and/or'-a disingenuous modernistic hybrid, inept and irritating." GEORGE RICHARDSON...
...Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...
...mitigate his disappointment at the failure of contract bridge as a profitable public spectacle, Promoter Jacobs last week had only the left-handed satisfaction of realizing that it was the less disastrous of two unhappy experiments which he had attempted simultaneously. Few hours before the Bridge Match ended. Promoter Jacobs arrived in New York from Cuba, where he had gone intending to complete arrangements for a Havana fight between Negro Joe Louis and Spaniard Isidore Gastanaga. Instead of completing arrangements for the fight, Promoter Jacobs took a hurried glance at what he later described as "a bodyguard of six machine...