Word: null
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Informed by French rustics that he could not get to Andorra through the mountain roads, buried 20 feet under snow drifts, he snorted: "If I had my null der car which cost $32,000 I'd go through these roads like a tank...
...Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed shop), extras' pay upped 10% with a null minimum, overtime pay for players in the lower brackets, revision of the Call Bureau...
...honored (Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void the Dominion of Canada's legislative measures for unemployment insurance, minimum wages, limitation of working hours and regulation of marketing: the "Canadian New Deal." These measures were originally introduced by Canada's unpopular Old Dealer Richard Bedford Bennett in his vain effort to escape disaster...
...Rosenthal in 1912 put Whitman in the Governor's chair. In 1930 Judge Samuel Seabury exposed the magistrates' courts and the next year started the disclosures which ran Mayor Jimmy Walker out of town. Despite these periodic spasms of civic indignation, crime marched on, burgeoning throughout the null into a new kind of super-crime, the racket, which no state or city authority seemed able or willing to attack. "Runaway" Jury, In March 1935 a New York County (Manhattan) grand jury assembled which was to become famed in the press as the "runaway" jury. Honest citizens, its members...
...world-record racer, recently re-streamlined and given a 1,100-h.p. Twin Wasp Jr. so powerful that mechanics called the plane "a big engine with a saddle." At 2:14 a. m. he climbed into the "saddle," said he might land at Chicago, leaped into the dark. null his big motor thundering, he bored up through the heavy overcast to 20,000 ft., pulled on an oxygen mask, set off across...