Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor, its rights and wrongs, a lively campaign issue in most States, fared well with voters. A.F. of L. and C.I.O. combined to stave off drastic anti-picketing ordinances in California. Oregon. Washington. But Oregon approved a milder initiative proposal to outlaw picketing in jurisdictional disputes, restrict secondary boycotts, regulate union expenditures...
...Nazi Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is a part-time virtuoso of antiSemitism, using his Ministry for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment alternately to incite and to calm German anti-Semitic mobs. And No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm GÖring is a ruthless German activist who signs the most drastic anti-Semitic decrees and has them legally enforced by the courts, the police and the army...
...permitted Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau to draft a program for extracting France from her financial difficulties by drastic measures of "exchange control" and "guided economy." Former Premier Leon Blum cracked: "I would laugh if it were the time to laugh!" For what Paul Marchandeau had not wanted the Blum Left to do, he now urged as a measure of the Centre...
...artificial, should not be used. . . ." Dr. Aaron went on to advise readers to avoid any cathartic pills that contain aloe, aloin (both somewhat irritant drugs), or strychnine; also any laxative chocolates, candies, chewing gums that contain phenolphthalein, a tasteless drug which stimulates peristalsis. Castor oil and calomel are drastic cathartics, should be taken only on advice of a physician. Children should not be given laxatives or enemas unless they are prescribed by a physician...
Wall Street last week came to the dregs of the Richard Whitney cup. Having issued a factual summary of the case and a set of drastic rules to prevent its recurrence (TIME, Nov. 7), SEC wrote finis to the tragedy with a stinging lecture and rebuke to the Old Guard which Richard Whitney once ruled. Excerpt...