Word: slating
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...follow the Hudson as far as the Champlain Canal, thence through Lake Champlain to the Richelieu River, which would be dredged to the St. Lawrence. Behind this scheme, which would cost some $150,000,000 last week were ranged Albany civic societies and such groups as the New England slate industry. Against it stood railroads and Canadian cities along the St. Lawrence which might lose their ocean trade...
Swept to defeat with Gene Talmadge was his entire slate of State candidates, including the man he had picked to succeed him as Governor, President of the State Senate Charles D. Redwine. Winner for that office was the Speaker of the State House of Representatives, Eurith Dickinson Rivers...
...were declared invalid. After two and one-half months the Union Party was definitely on the ballots of only nine States, definitely off those of eight, still hoped to get on those of the 31 others either under its own name, in affiliation with another party, or as a slate of independent candidates...
Many a person living along the New York Central's right-of-way between New York and Chicago received a surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two slate-gray, streamlined cars, one of them relatively normal in appearance, the other definitely strange, with little square windows on two levels like the gunports of a frigate. One car was named Progress, the other Advance...
...hullabaloo was about, I gave them a pretty picture of all that Father Coughlin was doing. But some objected, There is a spot on your picture. He called the President a liar.' Then I would tell them, 'We have erased that blemish.' I wiped that slate clean before I sailed for Italy. I urged him not to use expressions such as calling the President a 'liar,' because it failed to show respect for an office which deserves _______ respect. After I had discussed this with Father Coughlin he apologized to the President. I sent him word...