Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...installment-plan nest in Rockport, N. J., and that her husband shows no inclination to listen to her pleas for a more stimulating, if less propertied, life. A job of arson helps the Elliotts. Burned out, they take a studio apartment in the city, hobnob with the bare and bibulous, plan to spend their insurance money on a trip to Europe where Mrs. Elliott will absorb culture and scenery and Mr. Elliott promote a mysterious business scheme. But a pair of jealous wives back in New Jersey contrive to make it appear that Mrs. Elliott started the fire herself. Criminal...
...evening of his inaugural last year. President Hoover retired to the private White House library, seeking a book for relaxation. The bookshelves, he found, had been stripped bare by his predecessor. Last week the American Bookseller's Association revealed that it had prepared a special 500-volume library to present later this month to the White House. The books were selected by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the House Speaker, and Douglas S. Watson of San Francisco, father of Mrs. Herbert Hoover...
...Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant 26,000. Union membership in Ohio has dwindled from 42,000 to a bare 1,000. Union districts in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee have melted away. U. M. W. has shriveled to some 100,000 members...
...among Congressmen and Senators to introduce, chiefly to impress their constituents, measures authorizing huge expenditures which they know will never be passed, will never cost the U. S. a cent. As political gestures, some 10,400 bills have been so far offered in the House of which only a bare hundred or two will ever become...
...Commission and its recommendations. Some Dry Senators felt that President Hoover was afraid to reveal the true inwardness of Prohibition. Senators Norris, Borah and Brookhart each claimed to possess a mass of evidence which, they said, would "blow the lid off" Dry enforcement. Their honest purpose was to lay bare its evils and attempt to correct them...