Word: partially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local Board of Tax Assessors, advised citizens to ignore the Walmsley board's assessments. Finally Boss Long prodded Governor Allen into a moral crusade against Mayor Walmsley, charging that his police had protected bawdy houses, dice games, other iniquities. As a final blow the Governor, early last week, declared "partial" martial law in New Orleans, marched in his guardsmen, seized the office of the local registrar of voters, "purged" the rolls of some 24,000 names which would undoubtedly "vote Walmsley" in the September primary...
...Government, trying to save the cattle of drought-stricken farmers, the partial loss of the great Chicago stock yards as a shipping point was serious. For the packing houses it was less serious. Even in ordinary times the packers buy some hogs direct from concentration points in the cattle country. Shipments of "direct" cattle, private and Government owned, continued and soon began to increase. Chicago's commission men, who normally receive the bulk of the cattle and over half the hogs on consignment at the stock yards, virtually shut up shop. Their own livestock handlers would have struck...
...policy of the Hoover administration. ... It was your personal fate through lack of understanding of monetary forces to be the central figure in the world's greatest, most inexcusable and most costly tragedy of financial leadership. I ask by what right do you now presume to initiate even a partial return to your policies which have been tested and proved so ruinous...
...signalize the partial removal of New York Central freight tracks from Manhattan's cluttered west side and the completion of a vast freight station in Lower Manhattan, President Frederick E, Williamson of the New York Central took 1,500 Manhattan businessmen, financiers and politicians over the route. At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times...
Very cross was everyone with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou last week. Fortnight ago he did his level best to bring the dying Disarmament Conference to a quick and painless end by refusing to consider any plan that would allow Germany even partial disarmament, by refusing to admit Germany's reentrance to the Conference until French security had been guaranteed. The President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, mildest of men, looked straight at France's chief spokesman last week and snapped...