Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion. The argument: if Byrne is out, why investigate him? After months of work, the jurors were getting close to what may be Louisiana's highest-smelling corruption, the alleged "tax racket," whereby citizens and corporations agreed with tax officials on luscious tax reductions, with the savings split both ways. To terminate the hearing on Byrne's qualifications, thus also terminating the hearing of evidence on the tax racket, which was nearing the danger point of naming higher-ups, Byrne had been sacrificed by Long...
...Britain and France gave Hitler a free hand in Russia. "Hitler was sure Poland would agree to a plan for lopping off part of the Ukraine and dividing the spoils. Germany would get Danzig and part of the Corridor in addition to part to the Ukraine which would be split between the two countries...
First the Senate got rid of a move to split the Pittman bill in two, divorcing the controversial arms-embargo section from the less controversial title-and-carry provisions. Although New Hampshire's Charles Tobey had proposed this split in a sincere desire to get U. S. shipping immediately legislated out of combat areas abroad, the effect would have been to put the weight of debate solely on the Isolationist issue: sale of arms to belligerents...
...Yardlings play host to a strong Andover team on the Business School Field at 2:30 also. The Freshmen have split their first two engagements, winning from Governor Dummer and losing to Exeter...
When it met in Atlantic City, N. J. last fortnight, the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church had only one big item on its agenda: to declare itself legally dead. The M. P. Church, split off from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference...