Word: pullings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daniel Oren Hastings, Delaware Republican, stood up in the Senate last week and challenged "anybody" to say a good word for NRA, not a single Senator on either side of the aisle went to that organization's defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA is unconstitutional...
...Senate! Senate! Where is the Senate? ... The Senate sits here and is being emasculated. You sit here with this political tyrant and generalissimo dyed with the stains of corruption. . . . You sit here and let this character pull off of us everything that means that we are a United States Senate. I do not mind being made ignominious, but I hate to be made ignominious by a man of that type...
...line celebrates its first anniversary at the game tomorrow and it is expected that it will pull out of the little slump which was evident at Brown...
...powermen dared hope that Congress would pull many of the bill's teeth...
This tiresome chore done, the Frenchmen got busy next morning with Britons who pull more weight in the National Government than does the Prime Minister, namely, Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and such bright younger men as Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the Government, and Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal...