Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed a lack of knowledge of the situation. How could a manufacturer grant better terms when he had to look for money himself? I raised my voice against this foolish attitude. Soon after, Mr. Peter A. Bogdanov [now chairman of Amtorg] came to the United States and brought a bunch of Communists with him. It was decided by him to 'teach Americans a lesson.' Telegrams were sent to Moscow with the request to divert orders from the United States to other countries. The Amtorg is now engaged in trying to blackmail the United States into recognizing the Soviet...
Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana long a "minor fraction" on this question also returned from Russia to declare: "We're just a bunch of suckers if we do not recognize them...
...Hoover camp Assistant Secretary Heath got into bed, found a mousetrap and a bunch of grapes under the covers. The jokester: Dr. Joel Thompson Boone, the President's physician...
...making (later dropped), rug-weaving, metal-working and pottery were instituted. The farmers' attitude is indicated by a Le Gallienne anecdote: "One of them recently interviewed as to what he thought of the artists when they first came . . . replied, 'Wall, to tell the truth we thought they was a bunch of wild Indians and maybe some of them still is. In those days they'd take a canvas out into the field and begin painting on it. First, they'd put a dab of paint of one color and take about ten steps back to see how it looked...
...motors disabled as the result of a side-flight over Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara, and with nine English and Canadian news correspondents aboard. Freight and express revenues estimated at $500,000 had to be rejected in accordance with Air Ministry orders. Only excess cargo was a bunch of peonies for King George from Viscount Willingdon, governor-general; and a box of Canadian peaches for the Prince of Wales from Prime Minister Ferguson of Ontario. The homeward flight was uneventful until the second night when severe headwinds were accompanied by a deluge which overflowed the ballast tanks, penetrated the fabric, sloshed...