Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destroy the latter as a class." In New York City last week the Socialist Party was asked to cooperate in the NRA consumer campaign, to canvass housewives to sign pledge cards. Party spokesmen replied that they were too busy "organizing the working masses under the act'' to divert any of their energies to other purposes. The No. 1 Socialist, Norman Mattoon Thomas, publicly warned that NRA is packed with all manner of new dangers. He fears that the minimum wages in the codes will become maximum wages, that Labor will find itself organized into unions under a Fascist...
...Eastern Shore of Maryland bore the full brunt of the storm. The waves washed clean through Ocean City to the inner bay. Cars were buried in sand. At Salisbury all able-bodied men were drafted to dig a ditch to divert the Wicomico River and save the town. At Scotland Beach where his cottage was washed away Missouri's onetime (1915-33) Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer had to swim 200 yards for his life before he was hauled into a rowboat. At Dover the Delaware State Capitol was badly soaked. The famed du Pont Highway was closed to traffic...
Last week Mr. Fry told the world his reasons: 1) that he believed the liquor business would divert an important share of America's mass purchasing power from the "essential commodities''; 2) that he did not wish to class his other clients with the liquor business. Said...
...returned to Congress with their Presidential orders. But this one was different. The five Democrats emerged with their lips sealed. Not until the next day did the meeting become generally known and even then other Senators and Representatives could pry nothing out of the conferees. Speaker Rainey tried to divert the Press's interest by outlining a legislative program for the next two months which required no tip-toe visit to the White House to ascertain...
Italian Backfire. Dr. Benes, to whom the arts & wiles of propaganda are second nature, was accused last week of turning to France (longtime ally of the Little Entente countries) to produce a sensation which would divert Europe from his deed...