Word: slaps
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...august Supreme Court this week proceeded to slap faces to Right and Left. On the Right those eminent attorneys who once were sure the National Labor Relations Act was unconstitutional, were slapped again by a series of decisions upholding the law. On the Left those liberals who have long maintained that the Court was an arch enemy of Labor were rebuked with decisions favorable to Labor...
...14Hs that belong to Northwest Airlines have been corrected in the airlines' St. Paul shops. Nonetheless, B. A. C. last week suddenly cracked down, suspended for 15 days Northwest's license to carry passengers because of failure to maintain equipment up to required standards. This was a slap in the face for Northwest Airlines, which until this crash due to a structural failure, had the enviable record of eleven years' flying over difficult mountain terrain without one fatal accident...
...Japanese it all seemed negligible compared to the slap Japan received last week when President Roosevelt announced his billion-dollar naval program (see p. 9). Must we assume," asked Tokyo's famed Asahi, "that the United States will no longer contribute toward Peace...
...West Virginia lass said: "Why, I would say red was a very bright color and quite pretty, wouldn't you?" Cousin Arthur stared a little closer at the picture of Captain Frank in the H.A.A. News. Suddenly the Vagabond conceived a way to quiet three birds with one slap. "Pardon me," he said, "I wish to get something. I'll be right back...
...McCarthy indicated that sterilization at Beloit under Lulu Coyner was roughly the equivalent of a slap on the wrist at more conventional finishing schools; that school records showed one girl was sterilized because she had a bad temper, others because they were "incorrigible," "obstreperous" or partial to "fights;" that parents' pleas seldom influenced Lulu Coyner's and the board's decisions to incapacitate almost one half of her charges for childbirth...