Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would General Johnson step in to control prices, once the President had suspended the Sherman Anti-Trust Law to permit industries to make price agreements? He had two courses open: 1) slap an operating license upon an industry that starts kiting prices and then, unless prices return to earth, revoke the license and put the industry temporarily out of business; 2) get the President to rescind his suspension of the Anti-Trust law for the offending industry, leaving it open to prosecution for monopolistic price-upping...
...congratulate you, dear ol' boy! Splendid program! Fine settin'." Followed a slap on the back like the crack of doom. "Clem" Hobson lurched forward. The delicate stitching on his eyeball broke apart...
...that ride up Capitol Hill. Last week President Roosevelt kept his March 4 promise by appointing Mr. New ton to be a Republican member of the moribund Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The job pays $9,000 per year. Though Nebraska's Norris called the nomination a "slap in the face to all progressive Republicans," the Senate confirmed...
...which gross as much as $250,000 a year. Ellington will sit at the piano, play a theme over, try a dozen different variations. Spidery Freddy Jenkins may see an ideal spot for a hot double-quick trumpet solo. Big William Brand may be seized with a desire to slap his double-bass, almost steal the percussion away from Drummer Sonny Greer. Duke Ellington lets all his players have their say but listens particularly to the shrewd advice of pale Cuban Juan Tizol, his valve trombonist...
...little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week fought on, lone effective champion against seeping German Naziism whose cells are sprouting not only in Austria, but Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the German minorities of Jugoslavia and Rumania. To his aid unintentionally came Germany's Adolf Hitler. Affronted by Dollfuss' slap last fortnight to Nazi Envoy Hans Frank. Hitler countered last week with a 1,000-mark ($272.50) visa charge for Germans visiting Austria. This was a $3,000,000 slap to Austria's tourist business. But it squelched patriotic Austrians who have wanted a Middle European combine (an-schluss...