Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus willy-nilly the House Committees find themselves in virtual control of the names that appear on the ballot...
...years of age or over to ogle women in public places." City Attorney Ray Cheseboro promptly denounced the measure, pointed out its discriminatory illegality in protecting women from men, leaving men unprotected from women. Furthermore, said he, the anti-ogling ordinance "could not be enforced, due to the virtual impossibility of getting a jury of men who have not themselves ogled at one time or another...
...major universities in the U. S., Yale has spawned the largest group of professional artists. So skillful is the technical training of the Yale School of Fine Arts that for years its graduates have had a virtual monopoly on the Prix de Rome scholarships. Recognizing these facts, Manhattan's Yale Club last week opened its first annual exhibition of professional Yale artists. Graduates responded enthusiastically. Over 70 Yale artists sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist...
...virtual monopoly, accounting for nearly 14,000,000 of the country's 17,000,000 telephones. It controls practically all long-distance lines. It touches the daily lives of more U. S. citizens than any other U. S. corporation. It is the biggest private enterprise in the world, with more than $5,000,000,000 in assets, 270,000 employes, 1,000,000 security holders. State regulatory bodies have investigated its operating subsidiaries for 20 years. The Interstate Commerce Commission exercised a nominal control over the parent company's long-line operations before the Communications Commission was formed...
...natural object for New Deal reform, the basing point was thoroughly damned by the Federal Trade Commission in a special study in 1934. A special NRA report urged modifications so drastic that they would mean virtual abolition of the system. Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler is earnestly trying to end the basing point once & for all with a bill introduced last month...