Word: shredded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find no shred of evidence to suggest that any of the persons mentioned or described was even in communication with any of those who effected insurance, and that no leakage from such a source was suggested. "The same observations apply to all Cabinet Ministers save J. H. Thomas and to all those persons to whom information as to the Budget was supplied before its publication to the House of Commons...
...undefeated team, piqued at closing the season with a 4-4 draw. If such an argument could be supported by any facts, the extraordinary measure of severing our heretofore amicable relations with Yale, even in this single sport, might be treated with suspicion as well as concern. No shred of evidence, however, has been found to support the novel contention that the National Collegiate Athletic Association rules provide for, or even allow, a meet to be decided upon a basis of the total points scored by the judges; on the contrary, the N.C.A.A. Rules Committee, when asked for an official...
...time have opponents of Roosevelt been weaker than when they have attempted to arouse popular emotions by an appeal to the sanctity of the Constitution. Throughout the past four years blatant cartoonists have shown Roosevelt, Frankfurter, and the little hot dogs tearing the venerable document into shreds with fiendish delight. Leading editorials have stigmatized Roosevelt as trying to undermine the entire American structure of society by his measures which, they claim, reduce the constitution to a mere shred of out-worn parchment...
...away from his troubles. Last week he took his troubles with him in the persons of two Senators and his No. i relief administrator. South Carolina's James Byrnes and Kentucky's Alben Barkley this week will have to deal with a Senate disposed to gnaw and shred the President's tax bill (see p. 16). Harry Hopkins is trying to keep the President's promise to put 3,500,000 unemployed to work by Nov. 1 and at the same time keep organized labor in line in the matter of less-than-union wages...
...record for one-man filibusters second only to the 18-hour and 23-minute performance of the late great Robert Marion LaFollette on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill in 1908* And, at the hands of a determined little group of Democratic neophytes, he had lost his last shred of standing with his fellow Senators...