Word: discarder
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...long months will the. White Paper come up before Britain's Parliament to be enacted and give a new. more liberal Constitution to India or to be thrown into the discard. Not being in a hurry, the Conservative Conference voted last week 838 to 356 for "Safety First" Stanley Baldwin. It broke up amid more singing of "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow," thus firmly convinced Mrs. Stanley Baldwin all over again that God is in his Heaven and all is right with the English world...
...paper dollars would save them $500,000 per year in interest. A year ago the "gold clause" in domestic obligations, originated after the Civil War as a protection against "greenbackery," seemed legally impregnable, the very heart of the contract. Almost overnight President Roosevelt had swept it into the discard-and economic life went on about the same. Lawyers talked of taking a test case to the Supreme Court but admitted that their chief obstacle lay in proving that a bondholder had been actually damaged by being paid in paper money instead of in gold coin. Hoarders. Up last week also...
...independent offices, he paused, stood up, read parts of it, tossed it aside. Then he sat down. The scratch of his pen blended with the blurred bumble of voices coming through the swinging doors to the Senate chamber. A second bill went into the discard-a last-minute measure by South Carolina's Smith providing for a government cotton pool in return for acreage reduction. Herbert Hoover still had a mind of his own and he was determined to use it until the final minute. His rejection of the cotton bill set the head of outgoing Secretary of Agriculture...
...than do those of other newspapers, exhale a reminiscent fragrance. They are an assurance that no traditional detail will over be lightly omitted, from the Alpha of the financial advertisement on page one, to the Omega of the obituaries. It is unthinkable that a silly girl should unreflectingly discard such a very Palladium of her caste, and altogether fitting that she felt the proper remorse after the foolish act was committed...
...saved from being a complete waste of celluloid it is by the star and her director. No one who remembers the "Merry Widow" can quite forgive Von sternberg his recent perpetrations, but "use doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been able to discard his former habits of originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs; he can throw...