Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tight, hotly contested game at Concord yesterday, the Harvard Freshman hockey team suffered its first setback of the season at the hands of a powerful St. Paul's aggregation. The score was 3-2. The game was a hard fought one all the way through, and until the final whistle the result was in doubt...
Donald Richberg, eaglophile counsel of the NRA, promptly pooh-poohed this blunt setback: "The judge's remarks on the alleged unconstitutionality of the Recovery Act itself obviously do not carry any legal weight, since they were expressive of the jurist's personal view and did not constitute a ruling on a point...
...Bassett has long been active in city planning work. From 1913-15 he was chairman of the New York City Heights of Buildings Commission, and was instrumental in drafting much of the first zoning legislation, which led to the "setback" and "tower" styles of modern skyscraper architecture...
...built each year and mortgage money as a rule for a part of the construction cost is available when the owner has the balance. The problem of getting money for construction loans has been growing more and more difficult, especially in states where mortgage investments have received a setback by laws limiting rights of foreclosure...
...Like the U. S. Senate which prides itself on open debate, the Exchange prides itself on being a free & open market. By the third morning newspapers were beginning to call attention to less optimistic facts about the New Deal : General Johnson had said the U. S. would have a setback within two months unless wages were promptly raised: brokers' loans had nearly tripled in three months (reached $967,000,000), showing how much speculation was afoot. Moreover the dollar had risen: the pound sterling had fallen to $4.64, result of Britain having offered (see p. 14 ) to replace...