Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when conducting my log ging operations in northern Minnesota, I was 200 mi. from the point on Rainy River where International Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building...
Stepping out into the Square he stopped the first car that was available and borrowed a blanket and an old piece of rope. Enlisting the assistance of the driver, he once more approached the baby bovine. Only this time he planned his attack in advance, like a field marshal leading his troops into battle. Flanked on one side by a brick gatepost and on the other by the automobile driver the patrolman closed in. For a moment it looked as if the calf would make a brake stand, but realizing that he was outnumbered three to one, and overwhelmed...
...straighten out the city's muddled finances Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had sent to the State Legislature an emergency economy bill giving him temporary blanket power to reorganize New York City's government, to fix salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn...
...codes have been approved. Seventy-five more will be approved by New Year. Man of the Year Johnson believes that he has put 4,000,000 people to work, has upped the national payroll $2,500,000,000 in the past half-year. Last week the President extended his blanket re-employment agreements to May i, but these have lost their importance since 70% of the nation's workers will be covered by regular codes...
...NEVER ORDERED ARRESTED STOP THERE WAS NO BALCONY AND I WAS IN A ROOM SEVEN STORIES FROM THE GROUND WITH AN IRON RAILING EXTENDING TO MY CHEST HEIGHT STOP YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE ACCEPTED HEARSAY EVIDENCE WHEN HE WIRED YOU I COMMITTED A NUISANCE STOP I WAS CLOTHED HAD NO BLANKET AROUND ME AND DID NOT COMMIT ANY NUISANCE EXCEPT YELL TO THE CROWD BELOW IN A CHIDING MANNER STOP...