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Major expenses like the state housing board, and bond issues for building programs are wretchedly enough controlled to warrant a general budget-housecleaning; but it is the countless number of petty outlets for corrupt spending that really bleed the taxpayers dry. The cool and straightforward way in which their representatives who drew up the report have ferreted out and condemned these rampant evils, shows that there exists in this state, at least, a strong public determination to clean up a particularly harmful form of graft. Legislators will have to give ear to this growing voice of discontent, for, like William...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TUMBRELS ROLL | 3/17/1936 | See Source »

...race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Submerged Triangle | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

There are, however, people who continue to bleed at the nose despite all procedures and medication. The bleeding is a lifelong habit with them. A cold or a cough is enough to start their noses running blood. The epistaxis goes on for hours, days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nosebleeds | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...Washington AAAttorney Seth Thomas declared sadly that he thought many a processor would be ruined if he instituted a suit and lost because the Government would then clap on tax penalties and bleed him severely. In western Kansas farmers did their part to discourage tax suits by declaring a boycott on a milling company. A group of Texans headed by Clifford Day, who led the farmers' march on Washington last May, went to Washington with expenses paid by AAA and returned home: 1) to stir up farmers to fight the Bankhead Act injunction; 2) to start a farm movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Acreage & Allies | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...opening of the beautiful pool. The elite of Pittsburgh were in attendance; a polo game was the exciting event. I was merely a spectator on the side lines. Ruddy punched an opponent on the nose and a reciprocal punch from his swimming antagonist caused Ruddy's nose to bleed. . . . I ordered the swimmers out of the tank and they knew their master's voice. Like a lot of sardines they crawled to the dressing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1935 | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

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