Word: retreater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two retreats, One from the "fair trade practices" of service industry codes and the other from the general policy of price-fixing, NRA last week beat a third retreat. Fertile source of NRA criticism was that time & again bids from different companies for cement, steel and other goods needed by the Government have been exactly the same to the penny. Bidders explained that unless they filed prices available to the public and to all their competitors, they could not legally underbid one another for government contracts...
...stop this, President Roosevelt last week called in the Press and announced General Johnson's latest retreat: Hereafter businessmen may cut list prices up to 15% in bids for Federal, State or municipal contracts and no code violation will be charged against them, provided they notify the code authority after bids are opened...
Death sounds retreat: I am not sorye...
...bride, but for six long years David has provokingly continued to occupy his bachelor suite in a wing of St. James's Palace. At a cost of additional thousands of pounds he has made over Fort Belvedere near Sunningdale Golf Course into a sumptuous bachelor's retreat...
...deserve a little respect. . . ." "Horsefeathers!" Flushed with exasperation, Mayor Mc-Nair cried: "If you weren't so fooled and befuddled by a lot of Russian Communists you'd-" By this time the disorder was so great that the Mayor, shielded by two plainclothesmen, was forced to retreat through the fist-shaking, shrieking crowd to the street. There he told his secretary: "A few more talks like that and we'd wipe out these Communists." Pittsburghers gloomily shook their heads. A born windmill tilter, William McNair punctuated 30 unprosperous years at the bar with a monotonous series...