Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than this crimp in Recovery, however, which caused President Roosevelt to intervene more directly and urgently last week than he has in any strike since he entered the White House. In Flint, after the riots and injunction against sit-downers which began the week (TIME, Feb. 8), the Motor War of 1937 threatened momentarily to explode in the bloodiest labor battle of U. S. history...
Least inclined of all to ''shoot Santa Claus" were the Canadian Government of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who have been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
Neither team threatened to score. Dunster House held the edge on the offensive play, making several first downs on tricky line plays. Edward B. Simmons '37 at left tackle for Dunster, put a considerable crimp in the Adams House offensive, and the Adams line, as usual, repelled the Dunster invasions before their goal was in danger...
While a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals was putting a crimp in old AAA last week (see above), two Virginia farmers and an Idaho philosopher in the Senate were crippling at birth the bigger & better AAA conceived in the AAAmendments. Bee Control. Senator Carter Glass withered one amendment with ridicule. Among numerous commodities to be controlled and prorated, the spunky little Virginian last fortnight discovered queen bees. Bobbing up in the Senate, he rasped from the side of his mouth: "I note here that it is proposed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture the right to bring about...
...Bolshevik, Mr. Morrison is nevertheless sufficiently Socialist to put the final crimp in Britain's super-taxed leisure class, should he be returned as Prime Minister of a Labor Cabinet with a full working majority in the House of Commons- something British Labor has never...