Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soil. In the House he first (1903) attracted attention by a virulent attack on the late Dr. Harvey Wiley, pure food man who had criticized as "poisonous" a certain corn flour produced in his Illinois district. He worked hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. Tariff Fire- In 1908 Representative Rainey...
...Walsh of Massachusetts, provides for the sale and manufacture of "beer, ale, porter, bock, stout, lager, or a name similar thereto." With the above-named beverages taken out of the prohibition amendment, no other federal legislation would be necessary, since there is an existing tax of six dollars a barrel on beer on one hand, and the Webb-Kenyen act protecting-dry states on the other...
Caught unawares in Rome, barrel-chested Oberst (Colonel) Herman Goring, the Nazi Speaker of the Reichstag, instantly chartered a plane, made the longest Nazi flight. Leader Hitler swooped from Munich to Berlin's famed Tempelhofer flying field in a thundering trimotored ship crammed with political aides, two publicity men and an economist to advise him a la Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...truck up beside a pre-selected tree or fence, bear to it a small, cable-attached object, then retreat to wait, watch, listen. Once he put his '"trap" on the limb where a song sparrow came each dawn to serenade his nesting mate; once near a beer barrel which a whippoorwill had chosen for its nightly concert stage...
...that in the picture the gaunt spinster is the one who jabs Jenny. But the prizes for endings will not be awarded until Thanksgiving and the prize-winners need not conform with the picture. The only satisfactory ending for The Phantom of Crestwood would be to borrow the glass barrel in Six Hours to Live (see col. 1), allow Jenny Wren to settle the matter herself...