Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestions. Propaganda for and against the roads flowed into its quasi-judicial headquarters in Washington. Boldest, most startling public statement on Ex Parte 103 was made fortnight ago by Philadelphia's Representative James Montgomery Beck, good friend of Pennsylvania R. R. who threatened to instigate Congressional action to strip the I. C. C. of its large powers unless it hastened to grant what the roads asked. When Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas read the Beck broadside he sat down and wrote I. C. C. Chairman Ezra Brainerd: "I am astonished...
...Canton, Ohio, to Williamsport, Pa., then to the middle of the southern Tennessee border, then back to Canton. Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field. Mark off the central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes one-fifth (some 100,000,000 tons a year) of the nation...
...vest and full dhoti [three-foot-wide loin cloth]. My hearers wore only a strip of cloth about four inches wide. I saw that where my clothing uttered only a partial truth of the poverty of India, these millions, compulsorily naked save for their narrow langotis, gave through their bare limbs the starkest truth...
...Millions of Indians," concluded Mr. Gandhi sternly, "own nothing in the world but that little strip of cloth which preserves them from disgrace. I am not leading a 'back to the loin cloth' movement. We have been in these straits ever since the British have ruled India...
...long-rumored bankruptcy. For one day it seemed that Mr. Talbot was merely a businessman whose strength had been weakened by overexpansion, who was left floundering in Depression's flood. But the next day California Corporation Commissioner Raymond Le Roy Haight made charges which, if true, will strip the last vestige of decency from the friend of Mayors. Also involved in the hideous charges last week was Clarence M. Fuller, onetime Richfield president, still solvent but jobless...