Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless the sales tax split the Democratic House ranks wide open. Members repudiated the measure as a party bill, flayed it on a breach of party tradition. They vehemently argued that it was a tax upon the necessities of life, and hence upon the poor man, without regard to ability to pay. Mockingly they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election...
...Joyce, Agent Hoover "went so far as to use various threats" to Chang and "took possession of some of the title deeds of the property by main force." Justice Joyce's innuendo: "It has not been shown to me that his Excellency Chang has been guilty of any breach of faith or of any impropriety at all, which is more than I can say for some of the other parties concerned." In the Strange Career this quotation, like everything else, is spitefully twisted around to discredit Mr. Hoover whereas Justice Joyce was apparently referring to the actual defendants...
Sued. Robert LeRoy ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, 38; by Marion Ohnick (Haru Onuki), U. S.-born Japanese opera singer; for $500,000. Charge: breach of promise to marry. Said Miss Onuki, "I love Bobbie as much ... as I did when I first promised to be his little Japanese sister." Cartoonist Ripley is currently seeking new incredible facts in Australasia...
...affair is more important than is at first apparent. It is understood that if the Governor chooses anyone outside Tammany, it would be a direct affront and an indication of his distrust of all that had to do with the organization. The result would probably be a breach between them. And since Roosevelt needs all the support his political parent can offer in the coming election, such a "snub" might prove disastrous...
Last December, St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie went into involuntary orthodoxy. The church rents and investments had gone down in the Depression, leaving no more money for pageantry. This, by a curious bit of ecclesiastical weaseling. healed the breach last week between Bishop Manning and Dr. Guthrie...