Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumors of an impending upheaval in Spain gained partial confirmation late tonight when it was reported by authoritative sources that a general strike would be called throughout the republic at midnight...
...most glaring omission, in a speech obviously intended to restore business confidence, was the matter of New Deal expenses, and the partial failure of government refinancing this quarter, which raises the grave question of how the Administration proposes to foot its bills. A declaration on this point is undoubtedly the most imperative pronouncement that the government should make, if business is not to draw the conclusion that radical financial policies are contemplated...
...Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's penmanship...
Three days later, therefore, when the four du Fonts and their seven lawyers were again assembled, proceedings were carried on under partial censorship. Pierre du Pont testified that it was the company's policy to refuse business rather than pay bribes to government officials. A bundle of documents was promptly introduced showing that the du Pont company had paid large "commissions" to Chinese Nationalist officials in 1932, whose names, in accordance with the new procedure, were not released...
Like Germany's Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Roscoe Turner is partial to fancy uniforms. Last week he wore a red-and-gold helmet, sky-blue tunic, fawn-colored breeches, Sam Browne belt, riding boots. From Burbank he reached Cleveland in a pouring rain, three minutes behind his 1933 time. The crowd cheered, sirens screamed, Col. Turner cursed. Eight minutes later he headed east again, "poured on the coal," streaked to New York at half the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet, covered the 418 mi. in 1 hr. 24 min., broke his own transcontinental record...