Word: undercut
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Army, Correspondent Davis reported on its bankruptcy by telling how Roberto Farinacci's Fascist Party plotters undercut the Old Guard and ousted Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Correspondent Whitaker added: "The Fascists have deliberately spread lies about the corruption of Badoglio. He isn't corrupt. He is merely a very old man. . . . Graziani is a sick man, suffering, perhaps, from cancer of the throat...
...Army he had recently to discipline (TIME, Feb. 3). If Chiang and the Communists get to fighting, Free China's goose is cooked. The Communists undermine his power by promising to free the peasants from the oppression of the landlords. Why not, Currie suggested, raise needed revenue and undercut Communist influence by taxing the landlords while feeding and pleasing the peasants...
Lowest bid was Motormaker Ford's: he had undercut the Chrysler subsidiary by $250,000. But Henry Ford had refused to sign the provisions of the War Department's Procurement Circular No. 43 which would have bound it to comply with State and Federal labor laws. Found guilty over & over again by NLRB of unfair labor practices, Henry Ford has appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, meanwhile takes the view that he is not bound by Labor Board rulings until the Supreme Court says...