Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Polo Grounds, a powerful Fordham team-boasting two of the best backs in the country (Eshmont and Blumenstock) and a 220-lb. tackle (Kuzman) called "Little Sir Wrecker" because he injured several of his teammates during pre-season scrimmage-was outrushed and outsmarted by a going-to-town Alabama team...
...Agriculture. Among his many nightmares: Supposing ignorant peasants in Siberia leave their shiny new tractors out in the snow? Supposing collective farmers begin to act like rugged individualists in the Ukraine? In these or many other possible cases, his probable fate will be that of a Fascist-Trotskyist wrecker. Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov, latest to gamble his life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs." Comrade Eikhe, who quietly disappeared last summer, had done the same to the "accomplices...
...political administration, substituted the old-fashioned spoils system for most State offices. ("It has been said many times that under such conditions I have felt the need for spiritual wisdom. If there ever was a case where I could say this, this was one.") When the civil-service wrecker landed on the Governor's desk he said: "I have faith the right answer [whether to sign] will be made clear to me, perhaps this weekend." Mr. Dickinson and Mentor Boyles passed the weekend together. The bill was signed...
Frustrated civil-service advocates promptly asked Circuit Judge Clyde I. Webster in Detroit to declare 1) that "Lieutenant Governor Dickinson" has no legal claim to be Governor, 2) the civil-service wrecker was unconstitutional, illegally signed by a nonexistent Governor. Their grounds: the State constitution provides 1) in the event of the Governor's death or incapacity, the Lieutenant Governor shall serve "until the disability ceases," 2) the Governor shall fill vacated offices by appointment. One William P. Long of Detroit maintains that Luren Dickinson should have taken the gubernatorial office, then ended the "disability" by appointing another...
...Glenn expelled from the Party for questioning decisions, Comrade Silverstone steals Glenn's mistress. Glenn's final disillusionment comes in Spain, where he goes to fight with the Loyalists. Again Comrade (now Commissar) Silverstone pops up, this time contrives to get Glenn arrested as a "Trotskyist-Bukharinist wrecker...