Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucky" Luciana is a squint-eyed Latin who is supposed to run the Unione Siciliana, a society which has progressively usurped the privilege of catering to New York's night life. In their march of progress, reasoned Commissioner Valentine, the "socalled Italian gangs" had felt it necessary to wipe out the "Jewish gangs" of Messrs. Amberg & Flegenheimer...
...fighting such a conflagration the New Deal has provided a full fire house of potent measures administered largely by the Federal Reserve Board. That body now has theoretically unlimited power to restrict lending on securities by member banks. It may double reserve requirements which would nearly wipe out the current reserve surplus of $2,800,000,000 -base for ten times that amount of credit. Present excess reserves could also be sterilized if the Federal Reserve banks sold all their Government bonds. And the Federal Reserve may boost stockmarket margin requirements to 100%-cash trading...
...fresh pulse of jingoism shot through the Japanese Army last month when, to wipe out the shaming of the Army's Director of Military Affairs by a fire-eating lieutenant-colonel, mild War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi resigned to make way for less mild General Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Since a Japanese officer's patriotism is measured by his appetite for Chinese territory, patriotic Major General Hayao Tada, whose appetite is enormous, was sent to sprawling, international Tientsin to command the Japanese garrisons in North China. Last week voracious General Tada called in 20 Japanese correspondents to give them...
...repeal. There are three ways in which this may be done. First, should further investigation prove that the oath is not mandatory as it appears at present it will be an ineffective blot in legal files. Secondly, should it be of questionable constitutionality, a test case will wipe it off the statute books. Thirdly, should it only be a poor piece of legislation, the most probable eventuality, Mr. Mather has all the qualities which would arouse public opinion to influence the State Legislature in its repeal...
...Hoffman soon lost heart. But his small seed had fallen on fertile ground. From New Deal minds, notably that of Assistant FERAdministrator Lawrence Westbrook, there shortly sprang full-blown a scheme for transplanting Depression-broken Northwestern farm families wholesale to fertile Matanuska Valley. At a stroke the Government would wipe out all their pasts of failure and despair, give them everything they needed for a clean new start in life...