Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that he intended to put an end to these illegal practices, Attorney Arnold made it clear that he was not out to fight the A. M. A., that he would drop proceedings if the A. M. A. would stop chivying the cooperatives. Said he: "The department does not take the view that the offences committed are crimes which reflect upon the character or high standing of the persons involved. The analogy to which this proceeding should be compared is that of a prosecution for reckless driving committed by a person of distinction and good-will...
...crowded the leading non-fiction best-seller The Importance of Living, and with other serious books selling widely, contradicted the theory that summer readers go in for only light fiction. That they buy fewer books, however, was clearly indicated by U. S. booksellers' figures, which showed a drop of as much as 50% in some Southern bookshops...
TIME had best drop any pretense at impartiality if it continues to feature such photographic abortions which, indicative of neither character nor appearance, should be consigned to the darkroom trash barrel rather than to the printing press...
...John Citizen." Pierce Atwater, executive secretary of St. Paul's Community Chest, declared: "We have allowed our system of public welfare administration to grow far too detached from the body of the citizenship who pay the bills and who drop their verdict into the ballot box." He urged that "the John Citizens of America" be put on relief boards, to leaven professional social workers and politicians...
According to the 64-year-old Duchess, the Rightists have planted more than 20 large guns of German make in the hills around Algeciras, commanding Gibraltar; a number of long-range 5.9-inch weapons have been installed along the coast "so placed that they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more...