Word: discards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican Convention this week, hoped for quick adjournment next week by the simple process of putting on ice all legislation which has not yet passed both Houses. Major measures slated for discard under this plan were the Wagner Housing bill, substitute Guffey Coal bill, Copeland Ship Subsidy and Pure Food & Drug bills. By the same principle, at week's end, only remaining "musts" were taxes and Relief. Easy agreement was expected on the Relief (First Deficiency) appropriation bill, which had just gone to conference. Only real threat to adjournment plans was the possibility of a prolonged conference wrangle over...
...what was his final public appearance, his investiture as Edinburgh University's Lord Rector. Before Scotland's rowdiest undergraduates, who interrupted his speech by pelting him with paper bags filled with flour, with colored streamers, beans and peppermints, he imperturbably declared: "Unless the people of Europe discard this narrow nationalism that is miscalled patriotism there will be a return to the Dark Ages. The lust for expansion is not quite dead, but the glory of conquest is departing. Its gains are Dead Sea fruit, its legacy bitter memories alone...
...truck. "Millions of women make themselves miserable because their husbands never make love to them," she has said. "These suffering sisters could save themselves nearly all their woe if they would just throw their rosy dreams of how a husband should treat a wife into the discard. . . . A man marries to end romance...
...oilmen who is not a confirmed expansionist. In his report, which he signs "Dan Moran," he noted: "During 1935, the company's marketing program centered on improving marketing methods to the exclusion of expansion. An analysis of sales at the beginning of 1935 caused the company to discard unprofitable business which amounted to more than 30,000,000 gallons annually." To the average oilman, whose god is gallonage, shrewd, popular Dan Moran's statement sounded like rank heresy...
...advising student organizations concerning their conduct, of checking up on the scholastic misdemeanors of students, of guarding against evils in the conduct of athletics, or of investigating the infringement of any college rule or regulation. For one reason or other these powers have all been thrown into the discard...