Word: impairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Republican Doris Bradway became New Jersey's first woman mayor in 1933, her official acts have been investigated no less than ten times by grand juries, legislative and judicial bodies. But try as they might, Mayor Bradway's investigators have been unable to impair her standing with Wildwood's electorate. Last May, still under indictment for assorted official misdeeds ranging from, illegal disbursement of municipal funds to taking gasoline from the city's supply for her own use, she got herself elected by a landslide for four more years...
...regulation-kept Supreme Court endorsement of it from being more than a shadowy clue to the Court's forthcoming decision on the Wagner Act. Well hedged by its qualifying clause was Mr. Justice Stone's remark: "The peaceable settlement of labor controversies, especially where they may seriously impair the ability of an interstate rail carrier to perform its service to the public, is a matter of public concern...
Senator Wheeler's testimony delivered yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee presented some of the most convincing opposition arguments yet advanced. The most significant of these was Mr. Justice Brandeis' statement that enlargement of the court would impair rather than increase its efficiency. The agreement of Justices Hughes and Van Devanter is of secondary importance compared to the opinion of this famous liberal. That he should have put his name to such a statement is one of the most impressive victories for which the opponents of court packing could have hoped...
...policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million-dollar fur robbery which climaxes Dr. Clitterhouse's efficient operations is likely to remind U. S. spectators of a schoolboy raid on the jam closet. Somehow that does not impair the show's excitement...
...most extraordinary records of the racing year were those of two utterly dissimilar race horse owners. One was 24-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The other was Sangreal's owner, Mrs. Ethel Mars, whose failure to win last week did nothing to impair her standing as far & away the most successful owner of the year...