Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought the Bonus Boys and the Anti-Saloon League had good lobbies at the Capital. But their purposes and methods become incidental chicanery compared to the organized crime perpetrated by the retail drug concerns and their gag rule over the American press. When young girls are going blind from the effects of eyelash brightener, when the American Medical Association traces dozens of deaths to a supposedly harmless remedy for rheumatism, when drug cures for gallstones are sold at every pharmacy, and it is known that the infirmity can only be cured by operation, it appears time to divert these Borgias...
Further refinements, such as state pensions for the aged, blind, widowed, or otherwise incapacitated, a great increase in the property tax on parcels worth over $5,000, a 50 per cent inheritance tax and a stiffly graduated income tax, the substitution of scrip for money, etc., are incidental to the main project, which Sinclair expects to work out with such rapidity that after two years the historian of his reign will write, "The Governor made a last speech over the radio, saying that he had caused a thorough investigation to be made throughout the State of California, and that...
...Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators which not only made blind flying simple but two years ago led the Army to require it of every flyer in the service. Congress appropriated $1,000 to buy up his patent. But last week at Ft. Sam Houston, Major Ocker, oldest pilot in the Army in point of service, was summoned to appear before...
...Economics that he believes that the way to keep the United States out of war is to so lower our already comparatively weak system of national defense to an even lower point. Then every other idealistic nation, of which the League seems to find so many today, will blind their eyes to the fact that we are unprepared and leave the unguarded golden apple alone...
...family fed. When her man has been gone too long she lets herself be seduced by the landlord's agent. Then a friend has to help her have an abortion. The agent will have nothing more to do with her. Too late she discovers her daughter is blind. As her sons grow up, the elder resents her fondness for his ne'er-do-well brother, who leaves home, takes to dubious ways. Though she has wanted her sons to marry, she objects to the efficient daughter-in-law who takes her place as mistress of the house. When...