Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retired in middle-age to the sunshine of Beverly Hills, Calif., Davis and Sharp tried stringing their racquets with Sinu. To their great joy they found the sinu racquet much livelier than gut; found that soaking it in a bucket of water did it no hurt. They have built a factory in California, will have Sinu on the market in January...
Since everyone knows that lottery methods cannot fill the bucket of France's deficit, crucial interest began to focus on the reassembling of the Chamber of Deputies next month. Writing in Le Capital last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely...
...picture shows of which Corporal G. F. Baker speaks in his letter "Raw Deal" (TIME, June 26), but ours doesn't. It is true, however, that our laundry is done at no cost to us. Any time we're free to we can borrow a bucket, heat some water in it over an open fire, and wash our clothes...
...campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt. In 1916 he voted for Wilson. Two years later Tammany gave him a job as deputy assistant district attorney. Until 1930 when he retired, his brains really ran that office where he was the principal courtroom prosecutor. He put more than a hundred "bucket shops" out of business and thereby learned the shady side of the brokerage business. He sent State Superintendent of Banks Frank Warder to Sing Sing for taking bribes in the City Trust Co. scandal. He convicted Anti-Saloon Leaguer William H. Anderson of forgery. He prosecuted bail bond racketeers, crooked milk inspectors...
First committee room leak: the bill will cost U. S. consumers $800,000,000 per year. "But," explained Secretary Wallace, "that's only a drop in the bucket if prosperity is restored...