Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's meeting was different. The rank & file of the Legion's million members are feeling the pinch of hard times. They, as veterans, think the Government owes them something. They have collected 50% on their Bonus certificates as loans. Now they want the balance. With the instinct of buck privates they are tired of being led by well-to-do officers who seem to be taking orders from the White House. Organized originally as an explicitly non-political body, they have, through the exhortations of ambitious leaders and the promises of office-seeking politicians, become conscious of their political...
...GEORGE "BUCK" WILSON...
...Good Earth, dramatized by Owen & Donald Davis from Pearl Buck's Pulitzer Prizewinning novel; with Alia Nazimova, Earle Larimore...
...Carolinas as to the reason for the fence beside which "Bull" Durham has stood alone for so many years. This legend is that the original "Bull" was offensive to the ladies of the Durham, N. C. Methodist Churches and through their Aid Societies they appealed to Mr. James Buchanan ["Buck"] Duke, the late benefactor of Duke University, and himself a devout Methodist, and Mr. Duke, like California Educational Director Edward Lloyd Lomax appeased the ladies by erecting a fence hiding the objections...
...newspapers in the world to state the facts squarely and at once was London's Financial News which declared, "There is reason to fear America may not take too kindly to an arrangement which so blatantly passes the buck to her and which she may regard as little short of a conspiracy to defraud...