Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturdays and Sundays, they may go home or go to town to blow what's left of their $5 to $8 monthly spending money. CCCers over the past five years have contracted venereal disease at the rate of 18.3 per 1,000. Last year the rate dropped to 12.9 per thousand, as compared with the Army's 87 per 1,000 in the World War, 140 in the Spanish American War, 90 in the Civil...
Changes. Growing British resentment against this muddling contains enough dynamite to blow up the Chamberlain Cabinet and last week the Prime Minister took the long-expected steps to snuff the fuses. He moved his friend, slow-moving Sir Thomas Inskip, from the post of Minister for the Coordination of Defense, where everyone agreed he had been a first-class failure. Chosen to succeed him was Lord Chatfield, recently retired from active service. It was perhaps the most popular Cabinet move Mr. Chamberlain has ever made...
...Editor Armstrong the record demonstrates that the Chamberlain policy of appeasement was inept, vacillating, intriguing, unfrank. Appeaser No. 1 would first blow hot, then cold, would one day pretend that he was standing up to the Nazis, would the next concede an important point to them...
...Louis v. John Henry Lewis (Wed. 10 p. m. NBC), all-Negro heavyweight championship fight. Blow-by-blow report by Clem McCarthy and Edwin C. Hill...
That chapter closes when engineers blow up the levee to save New Orleans, and the convict, the woman and the baby have to move on again. Six weeks from the time he had been washed away, the convict gets back to the place where his journey began. "Yonder's your boat, and here's the woman," he tells the deputy sheriff. "But I never did find that bastard on the cotton house." The deputy and the warden repeating "Them convicts," slap another ten years on his sentence for trying to escape...