Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed a bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of the late Wiley Post's plane, Winnie Mae, for the Smithsonian Institution; named Robert E. Freer of Ohio to the Federal Trade Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct subversive activities in the U. S. (see p. 19). Word arrived from the Capitol that both Houses had passed a resolution to adjourn at midnight. Joyfully, Franklin Roosevelt sat down...
...barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted to make him look like a skeleton...
With virtually no bait remaining to induce businessmen to accept codes, and no force to compel them to do so, NRA now exists as a skeleton statistical organization whose chief job is to look up facts & figures to prove how good conditions were under the Blue Eagle, how bad after the Eagle fell to earth...
...Collection by NRA's skeleton of data on the past success of the codes and on the "orgy of wage slashing" that was expected to follow NRA's unmanning by the Supreme Court...
After these White House announcements NIRBoard Chairman Donald Richberg's aides-4,200 of the 100,000 Governent employes in Washington-scurried around looking for new jobs, fearful that they might not be preserved in NRA's skeleton. In the New York Times appeared this significant advertisement...