Word: slash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parents immediately wanted to know who is in line for Dr. O'Shea's job, one of the city's best-paid ($25,000 a year minus a temporary $5,000 slash) and potentially one of the most useful. Dr. O'Shea has been a public schoolman for 46 years. He was appointed Superintendent in 1924, succeeding Dr. William L. Ettinger who was politically ousted by Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan. Dr. O'Shea is kindly, gentle, petulant when criticized, sometimes in poor health and now poor in eyesight. A good Roman Catholic...
...that their relatives were wrongfully operated upon or autopsied in Duke Hospital. Too, there was talk at Duke that the University income (mostly from Southern Power System) is declining or will decline, and that University officials who in better times built themselves costly homes now face a substantial salary slash...
Piqued, the Conference Secretariat produced a letter signed by Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull apparently authorizing the 10% tariff slash proposal. Faced with this, Senator Pittman insisted that it was "unofficial." To a Dutchman a signature is final. Chairman Colijn told the Economic Committee that the U. S. proposal had been made, left the entire Conference up in the air as to what Washington's tariff policy might...
...strides past the finish. Jockey Fisher stopped whipping his horse and reached over to slash at Jockey Meade. He dismounted, ran up to the judges' stand to protest that Meade had fouled him by holding his saddle cloth before the finish. For a moment everyone in the grandstand could see Fisher, a tiny, wildly excited figure in bright orange silks, waving both arms. The judges-aware that both jockeys had ridden roughly-turned their backs. Jockey Fisher sat down, buried his face in his hands. (Both he and Meade were later suspended.) On the score board, the word "official...
Wherever held, Manager Henderson intends to limit the races to high-speed ships, eliminate events for commercial types, cut out all cross-country derbies except the transcontinental Bendix Trophy; slash admission prices...