Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junior at the University School of Cincinnati, a 2-year-old grandson named Stephen Dykstra Posey. Last week Cedric Parker of Madison's Capital Times, a Progressive organ which remorselessly hounded glib, dressy Republican Frank, interviewed Mr. Dykstra and found that "he does not wear spats, carries no cane, and doesn't care if his trousers are in press...
Sugar is now a well-regimented industry. The Secretary of Agriculture sets quotas on all imports and also on domestic production of both cane and beet sugar...
...Babst's patriotic appeals the public has remained apathetic. The entire U. S. cane sugar refining industry, highly mechanized as it is, employs less than 15,000 workers. Housewives and voters are likely to feel that sugar is basically the same whether it comes in barrels or packages, whether it comes from a refinery in Brooklyn or Cuba. Moreover, some 80% of the refined imports flow from the Caribbean, minimizing the probability of interruption of the nation's sugar supply in case...
...service men. No prisoner was William Andrew but an honored guest, sent for by the President who had read in the newspapers that he was a onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson and his ambition was to meet President Franklin Roosevelt. Hobbling into the White House on an old cane, he hobbled out an hour later with two canes, one of them silver-headed, inscribed "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said William Andrew to the press: "They let me in and the President had me sit down. I told him about when President Johnson died. I slept with him six days...
...incurable optimist, Pushkin was glad it was not Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there...