Word: undo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accredited scholars for many years. They are not, nor can they ever be, available to the public. In 1924 when the Morgan Library was handed over to a group of trustees as a semi-public institution, the present head of the House of Morgan wrote: "One soiled thumb could undo the work of 900 years, and a misplaced cough could be a disaster...
...constitution. Proud of the old constitution was the Administrative Council's idealistic member, onetime President Baltazar Brum, good friend of Woodrow Wilson for whom he named a Montevideo avenue. The Council put in a dignified, parliamentary protest. Meeting in an all-night session, Congress instructed President Terra to undo all he had done...
...business must be its own. Because farmers throughout the land are now marketing their wheat, no one believed the Board of Trade would actually close. Suspension of the world's largest grain market would throw the grain trade into chaos. Observers thought the Commission's order would undo much of the good political work done when President Hoover made Everett Sanders, a representative of the grain trade, chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Commission hedged by offering to rescind its penalty if the Board of Trade "receded from its position'' within 15 days. President Peter...
...state of revolt reminiscent of the Sales Tax fight, plunged headlong into the redrafting of the economy bill on the floor. There was no predominant leader of this latest insurrection against authority. Neither was there any leader strong enough to stop it. Different blocs kept coalescing to undo the work of the economy committee. In four confused, hysterical days the House rejected proposals for $125,000,000 in savings, accepted a scant...
...read to the Press: "Informal polls of the House have created apprehension in the country that a further bonus bill for $2,000,000,000 will be passed. I am absolutely opposed to any such legislation. ... I do not believe any such legislation can become law. Such action would undo every effort that is being made to reduce Government expenditures and balance the budget. The first duty of every citizen is to build up and sustain the credit of the Government. Such an action would irretrievably undermine it. That's all." Congressman Wright Patman of Texas is the House...