Word: worsteds
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Even if the A. A. A. had not been unconstitutional, it would have remained one of the worst acts passed in the History of the United States, ranking only with such recognized monstrosities as the Wagner Labor Hill, the Guffey Coal Act, and the N. R. A. The idea that a President should have the power to bribe districts of non-sympathetic voters with direct cash payments is unbelievable. But to have the effrontery to make these payments for nothing,--nay, for less than nothing, for refraining from doing something productive and constructive for the country--, transports...
TIME, Nov. 25 said: "In the worst U. S. opera ever produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there appeared last winter a soprano so shapely, so vividly blonde that she seemed more like a transient from Hollywood than a potential singer of real grand opera. In the Pasha's Garden was such a flaccid, sterile piece, offered such feeble opportunities that critics would only say that Helen Jepson was unusually pretty...
...peace between Italy and Ethiopia by means of negotiations taking their point of departure from The Deal of Hoare & Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that he, as the engineer of the Tory political machine, could suffer a backfire of moral indignation from its stout innards. Not being his own Foreign Secretary, Mr. Baldwin could and did make a scapegoat of Sir Samuel Hoare. After that he stated the future Ethiopian policy...
Virtually every editor who blazed away at his confreres cited the Englewood pic-ture-taking episode reported in the New York Times as an example of yellow journalism at its worst. As every alert editor already knew, the pictures were taken by Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks...
...week that the Democratic Party assembled in Chicago to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was the worst Depression week in Chicago banking. Nervous depositors swarmed into even the biggest Loop banks, demanded their money. Runs hit good banks and bad alike. That was the week that Charles Gates Dawes negotiated his notorious $90,000,000 RFC loan for his now defunct Central Republic. Long queues in the main banking rooms of First National were not dispersed until President Melvin Alvah Traylor addressed the crowd, explaining that he had enough cash for each & every depositor, that First National had weathered...