Word: arid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol of that ogre, "Corporation," which is usually delirium tremens to the voter; Ritchie is too wet to appeal to the arid West and South; Baker is disliked in too many quarters; there is no one else...
...That the present U. S. Lines, Inc. will be taken over by a newly formed holding unit, U. S. Lines Co., chartered a fortnight ago in arid Nevada. This holding company will be owned 50-50 by the New York and San Francisco groups...
...District Court in Trenton, N. J., last week presided Judge George M. Bourquin, 68, who had just come from the arid State of Montana. He was trying a Bloomfield bootlegger...
...thousand bedraggled horses last week limped in herds through the San Carlos Indian reservation, an arid section of Arizona. They searched for water but found death. No one owned them, or wanted to own them. They were scrawny, bigheaded beasts, physically degenerate. Practically every one of the 10,000 was infected with dourine...
...Diametrically opposite in viewpoint is the opinion, "House sees Democratic sweep in 1932." The whole situation is, as a matter of fact, utterly simple. The Republican prosperity bubble, thoroughly exploded, has undoubtedly proved the downfall of the party in power. The Democrats, headed by Roosevelt, will bridge the arid canyon with a wet plank; Prosperity is bound to return; the farmers are to receive their aid; freer trade will, however, be advocated; Americans will live happily ever after, after. The same tone of reasoning is in the opposing propaganda, which, however, reaches the same results by the high rather than...