Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make more indictments, the jury wanted all witnesses to waive their Constitutional immunity from having their testimony used against them. Subpenaed and presented with immunity waivers to sign were John Francis ("Boss") Curry, chief of Tammany Hall, and the leaders of his 23 districts. Boss Curry hitherto had made scant front-page news; now he made it with a vengeance by storming out of the courtroom because he had been asked to waive his immunity. Cried he to newsmen: "I've been insulted...
Massachusetts. By a scant 7,600 votes William Morgan Butler, dry onetime Senator, won the Republican Senatorial nomination over his chief rival Eben S. Draper, Wet. Nominee Butler, old friend of Calvin Coolidge, had the support of the Old Guard, Candidate Draper of the Young Guard. The total Wet Republican vote in the state was some 15,000 more than that by which Nominee Butler won. Without difficulty was Republican Governor Frank Gilman Allen renominated just a few hours before his wife bore him a daughter...
Although no law prohibits a U. S. industry from joining a foreign cartel, no official connection between U. S. steelmakers and the cartel has been established, stories of gentlemen's agreements are given scant credence.? That the cartel and the U. S. steel industry would soon be engaged in direct competition seemed likely when the cartel recently started an export division with strategic sales offices. In South America especially did a battle loom. Yet at last week's meeting the export division was abandoned, cartel members apparently having enough trouble in settling their home problems...
...Anglophobe, addressed him gently of England, her geniality, her pacifism, her friendliness to the U. S. When Mr. Churchill felt that the Anglophobe was at last quieted, he journeyed to Manhattan, ate a slice of Laborite Ramsay MacDonald's birthday cake, took ship for home. The world took scant heed...
...Moody is today. Nowadays the public gets more excited over flagpole sitting than over marksmanship. Last fortnight when the U. S. International Free-Rifle team sailed for Antwerp to try for the fifth successive time to bring the championship back to this country, the people and their press paid scant attention...