Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blocked by the dominant Roman Catholic Church. Poverty and hunger are on all sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take a heavy toll. The hurricane of 1928 (called "San Filipe" by the natives) struck the island a $100,000,000 blow from which it is still staggering. The 1929 sugar price slump hit the island's chief source of income. Tourist trade, despite the fine big Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan, is negligible because Porto Rico, as part of the U. S., is nominally Dry. Even the natives' greatest sport?cock...
Petter's Bombshell. With a single blow of his hard Canadian fist, Baron Beaverbrook shattered the idyllic calm of poor Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. Sir Ernest was told that he could either get up on his feet and fight the presslords' battle against Stanley Baldwin or they would smash his candidacy by putting up a third Conservative candidate. What could he do but accept the aid of two such very rich...
...General, the Earl of Bessborough, on hand? When appointed (TIME, Feb. 10), he expressed an eagerness to hurry to his job. But Lord Bessborough remained in England last week, perhaps to oblige his friend Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett of Canada, who may have wished to let Canadian nationalism blow off steam...
...would prevent a serious blow to labor during this crisis, I should not approve the bill. . . . It cannot be made effective for many months or even years. It is not only changing horses while crossing a stream but the other horse would not arrive for many months...
Next day it took the Senate three hours' debate to reach a second Bonus vote. The galleries were packed with ex-soldiery. Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware, upholding the President, complained that veterans would "blow in their loans on automobiles and riotous living." He exclaimed: "I do know many ex-soldiers who would steal their certificates from their wives and go out and spend the night with some other woman." Howls and hisses descended upon him from the galleries...