Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court. In what amounted to the first serious Senate sound-off on the AAA decision, Nebraska's old, white-crested George William Norris spoke for two hours in spite of the limitation on debate. Declared this Republican New Dealer: "I have no doubt of [the bill's] constitutionality but I say, frankly, I do doubt whether it can receive the approval of the Supreme Court. ... I think the [AAA] decision is an amendment to the Constitution, but that...
...normal family is at least as good as he has been in character parts and his supporting cast is equally fine. Wallace Berry is the delightful, warm hearted semi - alcoholic who has asked Aline MacMahon to marry him for 18 years; only in vain, unfortunately, because in spite of her love for him, she cannot forgive his trip to New York those many years before and his wicked female companions while there...
...over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against...
Showing the worst basketball it has played this season, the Freshman Quintet won an easy game from Lawrence Academy last night 41-18. In spite of the fact that the Yearlings held their opponents to a single field goal in the first half, their play was listless, and they lacked the fight which distinguished their early season games...
Some who make a habit of criticizing the "most influential man in America" assign to Frankfurter the authorship of Senator Robinson's reply to Al Smith's Liberty League speech--in spite of the fact that it is quite obvious to close observers that the ghost was Charles Michelson, ace New Deal publicity...