Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This party strife a hundred newsmen, ablest of their profession, were on hand to megaphone to the country. On the front page of his nationwide press Democrat William Randolph Hearst, having plumped for the candidacy of Speaker Garner and found it hopeless, exhorted Democrats to be truly democratic and drop the old two-thirds rule required for nomination. His press was not above fabricating reports of a Wall Street meeting of "160 prospective angels for this year's Democratic presidential campaign" to "stop Roosevelt." Delegates arriving in Chicago found their leaders already locked in a struggle which might make...
...Lenin and Peter the Great the latter was a drop in the sea, while Lenin was a whole ocean...
...playing in his first U. S. Open. Wiry little Jurado hits his shots with an extraordinarily brief follow through but they are almost always straight. Last week he twitched his drives down the centre of Fresh Meadow's fairways and apparently helped several of his putts to drop by a trick, which he seldom failed to execute, of falling down on the green, after putting, in the direction which he hoped his ball would roll. Jurado's 74 in the first round was respectable, his next round, 71, was excellent enough to leave him tied with Perkins...
...gold exports when the French balances were withdrawn, and by the rise of the dollar in world markets. The electric power figures which impressed Banker Dawes were those for the week ended June ii wherein output was down 11.5% from the same week in 1931 against a 12.2% drop in the previous two weeks. Released last week were National Electric Light Association's complete April figures. They showed a 2½% decline from March which was entirely at the expense of large consumers. Sales to small commercial users jumped 2%, to domestic consumers...
...have pondered last week was bank clearings. After a brief spurt a fortnight ago they slumped badly last week. Twenty-one cities outside New York ran 46.3% below 1931 and including New York the average decline was 52.6%. Heaviest loser among the cities reported was Boston with a 58.7% drop for the week. During the first quarter the total decline averaged...