Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dresses, so is he esteemed." He dressed well until he died in 1684, a rich property owner. Governor Thomas Dudley's face revealed the harsh Puritanism which won him praise and honors but never affection. Sniffing heresy in every act of tolerance, he died with a scrap of verse in his pocket which urged judges and churchmen to guard against "such as do a toleration hatch." The galleries also included portraits of Edward Rawson who rode clattering through High Street, Boston, to announce the accession of James II to the Throne of England, the Rev. John Davenport, friend...
...which President Roosevelt signed last April, but the code has effectively consolidated the industry's gains. Its chief provisions were: 1) a sales agency to act as a clearing house for domestic sales; 2) monthly sales quotas of 20,500 tons of virgin copper, 9,500 tons of scrap. The Secretary of the Code Authority, Ralph R. Eckert, was appointed Sales Clearing Agent, whose prime function is to keep sales within the quota. Producers must file with him a copy of all sales and the price per pound. Price changes must be filed 24 hours in advance, thus preventing...
...Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright reality, this modern civilization that we leave on your doorstep. It roars, it clatters, it shrieks and hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work...
That meant Europe had decided to scrap public conferences for the summer in favor of private conferences. Two of sensational interest were immediately announced. In Chancellor Adolf Hitler's entourage at Berlin it was authoritatively said that he would soon confer with Premier Benito Mussolini; and Prime Minister James Ramsay McDonald announced that M. Barthou had accepted an invitation to confer with him. The Italians also invited M. Barthou to confer with Senor Mussolini...
...right. He's with us." In the studio she watches a picture being filmed, meets Bandmaster Guy Lombardo. Her greeting: "Guy, you don't mind if I call you Mr. Lombardo, do you?" Whenever it appears likely that someone is going to give her a scrap of useful information, Gracie utters her idiotic slogan: "Don't tell me. Let me guess...