Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President secret. Briand could not hold his 'friends'." This personal factor must be given due weight. But larger reasons why the Man of Peace was defeated are to be found in Germany. Had Adolf Hitler not won over 6,000,000 votes on a platform of "Scrap the Treaty of Versailles" (TIME, Sept. 22), much might have been different at Versailles last week. M. Briand ignored Herr Hitler last year, continued his peaceful rapprochement with Germany. But half the shopkeepers in France had been scared out of their wits. The Hitler threat had time to fade and blend...
...year since 1909 with the exception of 1921. Blast furnaces in operation stood at 113 against 116 on April 1. Steel operations throughout the country were placed at 47% against 48% the previous week, and steelmen hoped a gain by Chevrolet might offset Ford's declining production. Scrap prices dropped lower, tin and rail operations fell. The unfilled orders of United States Steel Corp. on April 30 stood at 3,897,729 tons, a drop of 97,601 tons from March 31 and of 456,591 tons from April 30. 1930. Pipeline awards were higher and structural steel business...
Seeking Divorce? William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, fisticuffer; from Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey, cinemactress; in Reno, Nev. whither he went for a "rest." Said he: "We've had a scrap. I might file a divorce action. ... It depends mostly on letters I've written to her. ... I want to patch the thing up. ... But I want a home, a family and family life...
...business and be done with it. The Pulitzers had made a contract with Publisher Howard, contingent upon consent of the court, to sell him the papers for $3,000.000 plus another $2,000,000 to be paid out of profits, if sufficient, by 1942. Obviously Publisher Howard would scrap the morning and Sunday Worlds, merge the Evening World with his thumping Evening Telegram and gain the Worlds' Associated Press franchises...
...that Premier MacDonald . . . has ruined hope of a policy of co-operation between Arabs and Jews, if there existed such a hope, and has rendered the possibility of understanding between the two parties absolutely impossible. ... He has not attached more value to [the Passfield Declaration] than to 'a scrap of paper...