Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could wear a uniform similar to the Legion's, and this would be sufficient to provide the necessary excuse for our forays. Anyone not a Legionnaire would be eligible to join; and since this would mean some 100,000,000 people, we could all dive into the pork barrel with three big cheers and a hip, hip, hooray. Our numbers would be ample to throw the fear of God into a considerable body of chicken-livered Congressmen who become panicky at the mere mention of veterans' votes. The disgusting spectacle of a lobby so powerful that...
...purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the ordinary budget. Last week, under the lash of two of the most potent lobbies in Washington, it snatched back that power from the White House and returned pension reform to the pork barrel...
...personnel, a National Labor Board composed of five (recently increased to six) representatives each of Labor and Industry, including such potent figures as Gerard Swope, William Green, Pierre S. du Pont, John L. Lewis. And, biggest difference of all. it was captained by a stocky, barrel-chested, German-born, Tammany-raised Senator from New York, Robert Ferdinand Wagner. Last week Senator Wagner knew full well what he was facing. In the first six months of his Board's existence it had run into I.SIS labor disputes, an average of 300 a month. In the seventh month, just finished...
...therefore, Mr. Roosevelt thinks he has on his hands just the old struggle to guard the treasury from pork-barrel raids, he is wrong. And what, as a politician, he does about that when he finds it out, should certainly prove instructive...
Technically the gun is described as being a .22 calibre rifle butt, to which is attached a one-inch tube to serve as the barrel. The elevating and traversing mechanisms are worked by geared hand wheels, and have a movable field of 45 degrees each. The blank cartridges are black powder, and the gun is muzzle loading...