Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This will show that the National Recovery Act has teeth in it," snapped U. S. Attorney Howard W. Ameli of Brooklyn. Counsel for the defense retorted: "We did not sign the code, but a number of our competitors who did sign it, proceeded to violate it. ... In order to compete with them and keep our business going we had to work our men the same number of hours that they did. We refuse to be made the goat. This case may bust the whole NRA question wide open...
Baring his canine teeth in a merry grin, round little Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. shrewd, sly Foreign Commissar of the U. S. S. R., arrived in the U. S. last week. He promptly reminded the Press that President Roosevelt had "taken the initiative in addressing Mr. Kalinin." repeated the statement he had made in Berlin that as far as he was concerned it would take "less than half an hour" to conclude recognition negotiations between his country and President Roosevelt's. Commissar Litvinoff and the world at large had been beguiled by the friendliness of Franklin Roosevelt's invitation...
...principality. Groucho is engaged simultaneously in making love to and insulting the richest lady in Freedonia. He is also doing his best to foment war by abusing Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of Sylvania who makes the mistake of hiring Chico and Harpo. They enter his office armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors for cutting off coat tails, cigar butts and assorted bells. Assigned to pry into the affairs of Groucho, they begin by rolling a peanut stand under his window, making such a disturbance that to keep them quiet he makes Harpo his chauffeur, appoints Chico secretary...
Affairs have been so long in a state of crisis in Austria that the high tension is assuming normality. Herr Dollfuss is still ruling by the skin of his excellently white teeth, the Nazis and Heimwehr are making a great deal of noise and suffering a wild persecution, and the Socialists are biding their time, suspicious of both parties, with a general strike trump up their ragged sleeves in case of emergency. The Chancellor has ordered gallows to be erected for public punishment; mass demonstrations have been outlawed; the opposition press is now effectively muzzled. One thing which this situation...
...retained in the trials for the male parts in the coming production of the Wellesley "Barnswallows" dramatic club, it was announced last night. Trials were held Saturday and Monday in Phillips Brooks House by the Harvard Dramatic Club. This will be the second performance of the play, "The Dragons Teeth," by the English playwright Shirland Guin, in America...