Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasantly. Sir Frederick believes that British Broadcasting Corp., a government licensed monopoly, will take charge of such education. Sir Josiah Stamp, economist, was altogether pessimistic on the subject. Science, argued he, should be curbed. It is producing new goods which destroy the demand for old. That process tends to wipe out old industries, causes economic waste. There should be a referee system to control the exploitation of new "direct discoveries" and stimulate the production of "derivative discoveries" which established concerns can use in their business. One method of control would be to force the price of a new article high...
...that would make the plan unlawful should be suspended and the Constitution made responsive to the demands of its creation, the preservation of national welfare. . . . A kidnapping and racketeering statute, with appropriate means of enforcement, must and shall be the most popular statute on the books. A plan to wipe out these forms of fundamental crime is one of the chief objectives of Attorney General Homer Cummings...
Representative Marland, who lost a $65,000,000 fortune with his Marland Oil Co., was the first gubernatorial candidate to step into the 1934 Democratic primary. He promised voters to wipe out the $12,000,000 State deficit, up oil prices, make capital investments secure. By law Democratic Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray is forbidden to seek reelection...
...which the Board had added $2,600,000 in anticipation of a hypothetical decrease in tax revenues. Now Dean Judd charged outright that the Board had deliberately misstated the deficit in order to frighten the public into accepting its cuts. Even if it were trying to wipe out in one year the deficit accumulated since 1929, that, at 1932's end, had been less than $7,000,000. As for 1933's genuine deficit of $1,162,940, that had already been disposed of by postponing a fortnight the schools' autumn opening. Without curtailment of a single...
...YANKS was one of his favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half a bottle and wipe his mouth on his sleeve...