Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawn from the following of Fusion Candidate Fiorello La Guardia, scrappy little Progressive ex-Congressman, firm friend of Senators Norris, La Follette et al., as well as from disgruntled Democrats. In some quarters it was reported that the White House had been drawn into the New York Mayoral scrap because Postmaster General Jim Farley wants to become New York's Governor...
...aluminum pots, pans, propellers, but only one U. S. producer of virgin aluminum-Aluminum Company of America, dominated by Andrew William Mellon & Family. The hearing soon settled down to a clean-cut fight between the independent fabricators, who must not only buy from Alcoa all their aluminum (except scrap) but also market their wares in competition with Alcoa, which is by far the biggest fabricator. The independents objected to three things in the code which the Association of Manufacturers in the Aluminum Industry had submitted...
...whole thing is hopelessly unconstitutional," was the legal opinion as voiced by James A. McLaughlin, Professor of Law. It might be highly inadvisable, he argued, to scrap the Constitution completely and so suddenly, since the courts will uphold the NRA as only an emergency measure...
...President Roosevelt was under heavy obligation to produce results at home. Well over 500 trade codes were reported in the making. Milliners, sugar men, baby-carriage dealers, jewelers, druggists, furniture retailers, lumbermen, clothing-makers, printers, milk evaporators, cleaners & dyers, waste-material dealers, paper men, silk manufacturers, farm-implement makers, scrap-iron men, tent makers, rabbit furriers, undertakers, oilmen, pretzel bakers & benders, underwear men, restaurateurs, coal men, steel men-all were in the throes of codification...
...which might decide his right to keep the name of Leader with a big L. The issue, ideal for Conservative squabbling, was whether His Majesty's Government should follow their vague but benevolent White Paper program destined to give India a little more freedom some years hence, or scrap the White Paper here and now. As the scrappiest of pro-scrappers appeared peppery, red-haired Winston Churchill who for years has been trying to steal the Party leadership from "flaccid" Mr. Baldwin and "cold" Mr. Chamberlain...