Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garden are about 406,000 veterans drawing pay for disabilities in no way connected with the War. Only those permanently and totally disabled in civil life stay on the rolls, and they get $20 per month instead of $40. Veterans with service-connected disabilities take a 20% cut. The blind soldier with a leg blown off in action now drawing $275 per month must get along...
...planting time. In his special farm message last month he warned Congress that "if we wait for another month or six weeks the effect on the prices of this year's crops will be wholly lost." Infected with his sporting spirit, the House passed his bill with blind speed. But the Senate sets itself above sun and seasons. Its refusal to compete with nature last week threatened to wreck the whole Roosevelt farm relief plan before it could get fairly started...
...must mean Polashchuk." He was reinstated. Moving to Moscow to live with his "brother," he became a tower of orthodoxy while honest men fell on every side for peccadillos of opinion or efficiency. Konar rose rapidly. In his apartment gathered the "true blue incorruptibles" of Communism. Last month by blind chance the Ogpu discovered that Konar was on too excellent terms with "a prominent foreign diplomat." When police came for him, he told them he need only telephone Ogpu headquarters. They showed him the Ogpu signature on the warrant and he buried his head in his hands. On trial...
ARTICLE ON BLIND LANDING IN ISSUE MARCH 13 DOES INJUSTICE TO MEMORY OF MY BROTHER MARSHALL S BOGGS IN MISSTATING MANNER OF HIS DEATH STOP THE FATAL CRASH OCCURRED LONG AFTER DARK NOT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT STOP HE WAS ENGAGED IN LINE OF DUTY...
Then, as he approached the U. S. for the first time, his coming was heralded by a super-Shavianism. In the New York Times, blind, deaf, gentle Helen Keller told how, when she once met him and admiringly addressed him in England at Lady Astor's, he snapped: "All Americans are blind and deaf-and dumb!" (TIME, March...