Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subcommittee of three which first investigated Judge Ritter voted 2-to-1 against recommending impeachment. In January the full Judiciary Committee voted 12-to-7 to drop the charges. Same day Florida Congressman Robert Alexis Green, who wears a flowing Windsor tie, uprose on the House floor, made a rousing speech against Judge Ritter. Three weeks later the Judiciary Committee reversed itself by voting (10-to-8) an impeachment resolution. The constitutional "high crimes and misdemeanors" of which the Democratic majority accused Republican Judge Ritter: He granted an exorbitant fee of $75,000 to his onetime Partner Albert L. Rankin...
...terrible disappointment," said it would mean a "terrific loss." True, the Pennsylvania did not actually get 3.6? a mile from each customer, as the 3.6? rate represented a standard from which large reductions were commonly made. Actual 1935 revenue per passenger per mile was 2.69?.* But this might drop to 1.7? a mile under the new dispensation...
Robert Wadlow's giantism is due to dysfunction of the small, chestnut-like pituitary gland, which lies under the front part of the brain. Among the many results which follow pituitary disorder is muscular weakness. Vast Robert Wadlow must move slowly and deliberately, lest he drop things or stumble. At Shurtleff College, where he is a freshman, he ranks well above the average. His best subject is German. When he graduates he expects to become a lawyer...
...through a 1932 deficit of $2,084,000. That was in part the inspiration for President Cunningham's rejuvenation program, in part a result of the program itself, which was costly. And the program was hardly launched before Butler had to adjust itself to a Depression sales drop from $63,000,000 yearly to a low of $46,000,000. In his 1930 report President Cunningham dolefully observed : "Everything conspired to make it the most trying and unsatisfactory year in our experience...
...answering the statement that the New Deal measures have helped business, Sullivan referred to the drop in the stock market when the NRA and AAA were passed and the subsequent rise when they were declared void by the court. He went on to call the administration the most remarkable political matchine of all time and summed up their political and economic philosophy as "Hell bent for election...