Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line with this judgment the Federal Radio Commission summoned RCA and its subsidiaries to show cause why the extreme penalty of the law should not be invoked and its licenses canceled July 15. At last RPA had RCA on the defense before a? government body empowered to sweep RCA's vast business into the junk pile at one stroke...
...this Premier Jorga, well coached, responded: "Your Majesty's activities will not be restricted by any respect for obsolete formalities. . . . Modern kingship is founded, in the first place, upon the concentration in itself of forces for the good of the country. . . . Consequently, it is necessary to sweep away pseudo-democratic prejudices, for every politician realizes that a group of altruistic but wise men can achieve much more than the whole structure of a democracy...
Tall, imposing as a board chairman of the old school, is Basso Witherspoon. His gallant mustachios have greyed in later years, lost something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime...
...matter what the circumstances, the general tone of these forecasts is and remains the same. Last night, from one side of the campaign came the headline, "Would defeat wet Democrat by 10,000,000." Diametrically opposite in viewpoint is the opinion, "House sees Democratic sweep in 1932." The whole situation is, as a matter of fact, utterly simple. The Republican prosperity bubble, thoroughly exploded, has undoubtedly proved the downfall of the party in power. The Democrats, headed by Roosevelt, will bridge the arid canyon with a wet plank; Prosperity is bound to return; the farmers are to receive their...
With one or two exceptions, the Crimson sweep-swingers have completed their examinations so with the start of the second week of practice tomorrow the men will be able to get down to serious work in their preparation for the Yale races...