Word: null
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determination of policy. The amendments are and will continue to be treated as null and void." Mr. Lewis took the floor. "There is no reasonable man," he began, "who does not recognize that statement as bombast. The Alabama coal operators are not quite ready to declare war on the United States. But"-he paused and glowered-"if they feel that way, the United Mine Workers are ready within 15 days to furnish the President with 20 army divisions to force them to comply with the law." Mr. Johnston, very much in earnest, interrupted : "As between civil war in the industry...
...straighten out the city's muddled finances Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had sent to the State Legislature an emergency economy bill giving him temporary blanket power to reorganize New York City's government, to fix salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn...
...long Denver pass and a recovered fumble gave Utah its first Rocky Mountain Conference defeat since 1927, null...
...Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri; by Mary McCormic, operasinger; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers. She is writing my life story." Property settlement: Prince...
Meanwhile last week a squadron of French army biplanes roared across the Sahara on a null tour of French African territory which began fortnight ago, will last for another month. Possibly inspired by Italy's formidable demonstration in the Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...