Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking for a Wet candidate, recommended the submission of a resolution repealing the 18th Amendment. Like Senator Borah, he denounced the theory that constitutional Prohibition could be kept in some States and not in others. The Republican plank on this question he called "a promiscuous agglomeration of scrap-lumber," adding...
...were on the march to Washington. Seven thousand of them paraded one evening in quiet order up Pennsylvania Avenue. The discipline at "Bonus City" continued good, despite the fears of alarmed Washingtonians who helped to spread unfounded Red scares. Crude shelters were built from old lumber, packing boxes and scrap tin, and thatched with old straw. Several hundred secondhand Army tents were provided. Company streets were laid out. Latrines were dug. Regular formations were held daily. Campers were organized for field sports to keep them out of mischief. Newcomers were required to register after proving that they were bona fide...
...nations should scale down taritt walls and scrap import quotas which Mr McGarrah called "the new method of interfering with trading relations [which] has resulted, in many cases, in rendering the working of most favored-nation clauses and other provisions in commercial treaties practically inoperative...
...Talleyrand were the most important. Talleyrand, although he represented the losing Power, was able to break into the negotiations and align England and Austria against Russia and Prussia. Nor did the Congress break up when Napoleon escaped from Elba. It stayed until shortly before Waterloo, until the last scrap of Napoleon's empire had been disposed...
Amid lusty Canadian cheers a representative of His Majesty's Government announced that hereafter the Canadian National Railways "will engage hand labor and scrap machinery wherever possible, to provide more employment." Until further notice, however, Canadian National Railway trains will continue to be pulled by locomotives...