Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill so similar that the Government Printing Office ran off copies from the plates made for the Lewis one. Then Chairman Doughton wangled a lower number for his bill which would place it ahead of the Lewis measure upon the House calendar. Mr. Lewis protested against this attempt to rob him of his legislative rights. But the bill that was before the House last week had been rewritten in committee, given a new number and christened "Doughton." Congressmen wondered whether Representative Lewis would be embittered and oppose the measure when he marched down into the House well to make...
...brush made two rapid curlicues, and he found himself in court on the rare charge of criminal libel. Last week at his trial the curlicues were held up for a jury to see. They formed the words mpau shek. That, said the prosecution's interpreters, meant "rob" and "cheat." Nothing of the sort, retorted Editor Jee; it meant "squeeze," which was what he accused the Association of doing. If he had wanted to write "rob," Editor Jee said he would have squiggled chang gip. In 40 minutes, the jury accepted the meaning as "rob," found Crusader Jee guilty...
...uncertainty-seems to care. The reporter falls desperately in love with Laverne, does everything he can to get in the trio's good graces. He hands over his apartment to them, lends them money, tries to get his editor interested in them. In return they cold-shoulder him, rob him when he is drunk. Because Shumann's plane is obsolete, the only way he can place in the money is by cutting risky corners at the pylons. By tricky work, the reporter gets him a dangerously overpowered plane for the third day's race, so that Shumann...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, who is directing Government during the absence of Professor Rob in China, has just completed a book advocating reforms in the Constitution. It is called "The Need for Constitutional Reforms" and will be published March...
...tangled skein of social and economic complexities. While it is difficult to disagree with this statement, the important fact is that leaders of the state must AT LEAST have as a FIRST prerequisite "the virtues of honesty and public devotion." And it certainly is not an honest act to rob the banks of their gold, to issue an edict depriving a man of his gold (even if the gold standard IS ONLY psychological), to deny the obligation of contract, to tax the poor for their bread and meat, to assert in an inauguration speech that the Federal, State, and local...