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Word: voided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that a majority of his farmers favored it. Governor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas had sent a delegation to Austin to urge it. With the plan already doomed to defeat through Texas' failure to adopt it. Governor Long said he would declare the Louisiana bill "null and void and inoperative." Oklahoma cotton growers agreed to follow Texas. Alabama and Mississippi were still lukewarm. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner announced that no session of his General Assembly would be called "to completely abandon the growing of cotton." His points: 1) The trouble with U. S. cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Drop-Half-a-Crop | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

When Congress passed the Federal Radio Act in 1927 it suspected the existence of an "air trust." Therefore in Section 13 of that law it directed the Federal Radio Commission to void all licenses of broadcasting and communications companies "finally adjudged guilty by a Federal court of unlawfully monopolizing or attempting to monopolize radio communications through the control of radio apparatus." RCA with some 4,000 patents dominated the radio manufacturing field, compelled rival firms making sets under a patent-license-and-royalty system to install only RCA vacuum tubes in their products. So complete was its grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RPA v. RCA | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...Philadelphia last week Sir James repeated his theory of the solar system's development: the sun and another star once upon a time passed close to each other, a rare celestial occurrence. The passage caused enormous tides in the gaseous sun. Streamers of sun material sped into the void, broke away from the sun, coalesced into planets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Medalists | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

Said the Commission: "In making this statement nothing new is added to the present law of the Church. . . . The present Canon 43 and the Marriage Service of the Church both assume that marriage may be declared null and void. . . . The door for remarriage of divorced persons is by no means thrown wide open. . . . The Commission . . . considers this proposed canon as only tentative, and desires to give it the widest possible publicity for the purpose of invoking discussion and criticism. . . ." Birth Control- As did the Lambeth Conference (Anglican, Episcopal) last year and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Changing Protestants | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...last week President William Armstrong Fairburn of Diamond Match Co. saw fit to deny the report that his company had tried to get out of its re-organization plan. His denial was quite definite for he saw fit to call the rumors "crude and imaginary, positively unwarranted by fact, void of substance and absolutely false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Denial | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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