Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside his State, Gene Talmadge is widely regarded as a scraggle-haired, red-gallused, cigar-smoking demagog who, while bawling at the New Deal for being "un-American," has ruled Georgia at the bayonet points of his militia. When the Legislature refused to fulfill his campaign promise of cheap automobile licenses, he created them by executive fiat, booted out his Motor Vehicle Commissioner for refusing to sell them. When the head of the potent State Highway Board refused to dismiss five of his engineers, Talmadge sent militia to seize the Board's funds, declared martial law, ousted the Board...
...Dallas, where The Texas Rangers last fortnight had a "prerelease" première, audiences were delighted to find all early white residents of their State, not excluding desperadoes, depicted as high-spirited, swashbuckling citizens in sharp contrast with those cheap chiselers, the Indians. Audiences elsewhere are likely to excuse the picture for its pardonable bias on the grounds of an entertainment value enhanced by King Vidor's vigorous treatment of a story largely concocted by himself, brilliant photography by Cameraman Eddie Cronjager...
...Texas' late great Senator." As Joe Sr. had to resign from the U. S. Senate because of his accepting money and favors from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, I fail to see where he achieved any greatness. To me he ranks with Jim & Ma Ferguson as cheap politicians whose memory makes decent Texans blush with shame...
Keynoter of the three-day shindig was young Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia, apostate New Dealer, who delivered a 90-min. harangue in favor of all Father Coughlin's"16 points" of Social Justice, net of which is that cheap money is the key to a rich life for all. Orator Holt evoked boos for Representative John J. O'Connor (who last spring threatened to kick Father Coughlin from the Capitol to the White House), Herbert Hoover, the du Ponts, Carter Glass, WPA, the Federal Reserve System. He won cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice...
...siege at its hottest, the Colonel abandoned the usual tactic of trying to defend a central stronghold, distributed the forces of the Revolution in various parts of the city and dared the Asturian miners to come on. On came the miners, chiefly armed with homemade dynamite bombs. On cheap cigars clenched in their teeth, they lighted the fuses of their dynamite bombs and flung them into every house they suspected of containing soldiers of the Revolution. Meanwhile the soldiers of the Revolution sniped skillfully, picked off many a miner and still held part of Oviedo after a whole month...