Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weakness in Professor Carver's vigorous "offense-is-the-best-defense" essay is his attack on immigration, so common to this well-known writer's interviews. It is a mute indication that this article was written with only this country in mind. Importation of cheap labor is surely only a local phenomena, and does not exist in England or France to any extent...
...deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except in the case of France. Once, traveling in Europe, he was stopped at the French border and fined for trying to smuggle a box of cheap cigars. A Dry turned Wet, he expects to raise large sums from the legalization of liquor...
...room for a year in order to get into the desired Houses, have been thwarted in their attempts to change to a cheaper room, whatever their reasons might be. In justification to the House masters, it must be pointed out that they wish to save a certain number of cheap rooms for the incoming Freshmen, and that this number necessarily equals approximately that of the rooms vacated by the seniors. Moreover, in cases of real need, House authorities have been fairly liberal thus far with House aid and other financial help...
...game-making companies like Milton Bradley Co. and Parker Bros, turned to cheap, cardboard-backed jigsaw. Einson-Freeman's 3,000,000 puzzles account for more than half the total sales today, with the fad being pushed by newspaper colyumists, cartoonists and editorial writers, by radio gag men and smart cocktail party devotees. Simon & Schuster, crossword pioneers, issued $1 puzzles designed by Peter Arno, William Steig, Otto Soglow, Tony Sarg...
...Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils got it extremely cheap from a man who feared publicity...