Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker Byrns, eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil O'Connor, Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner, Representative O'Connor is, because of his habit of sneering at his opponents...
...source. They have received what have been termed Cambridge scholarships (awarded to those with honor grades) and Cambridge Aid. All but a few Cantabridgians have been under the impression (or delusion) that this money has come from the general funds of the University and is more or less a sop to the tax-exemption squabblers...
Protesting this Tory sop to the proletariat, Labor Party Leader "Old George" Lansbury snapped: "Sooner or later a return must be made to the policy of large scale public works laid down by our [Labor] Government...
Gold. "So long as the Soviet Union is surrounded by Capitalist countries, we are likely to maintain a gold basis in relation to our foreign obligations ? as a sop to the nations with whom we are dealing...
When the bids were opened considerations of price apparently went by the board. On "technical grounds" the Chilean Government decided to buy British. At one clip some $500,000 worth of orders were lost to U. S. firms. As a minuscule sop, the Defense Ministry admitted that Chile probably will buy from the U. S. spare parts for the U. S. planes she already has and intends to buy several U. S. Fairchild airplane cameras. As delighted British salesmen stood drinks all around Chilean officers growled, "This may teach the damned Yankees a lesson...