Word: overreaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flunked the National Labor Board because nowhere in the law was that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
Webster's New International Dictionary defines jew: "... To overreach by sharp practice, cheating or trickery; to practice imposition or extortion upon;- used opprobriously in allusion to practices imputed to the Jews by those who dislike them, or now sometimes colloquially without conscious reference to the Jews...