Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers do not report Mr. Cadmus' reactions. If he is wise, he will return to his garret and get to work on a painting of Washington at Valley Forge. Better men than he have learned that the pensioner must choke his muse, dry his tears, and paint, write, or chisel as he is told. Erasmus, for example, and Samuel Johnson. Only a Michelangelo could take a papal salary, tell the Cardinals to stick to their breviaries, and finish St. Peter's as he damn well pleased...
Administration leaders in the House moved today to choke off the mounting Congressional demand for inflation...
Buick has rounded off its rear end to conform with aerodynamic principles but its design has not been radically altered. ''Knee-action" wheels, automatic choke and power brakes make for 1934 comfort. Oldsmobile this year added a low-priced six to go with its regular line of eights. More thoroughly streamlined than last year, Oldsmobile has all of GM's contributions to easier riding and driving...
...scramble of the Nations to give their worldly goods each to the other. The dollar drops in terms of pounds, therefore pounds can buy more dollars, therefore pounds can buy more American products, therefore pounds must not be allowed to buy more American products, because more American products might choke a starving England with the necessities of life...
...likely to be disastrous. And then Mr. Percy took a look at the disputed Article VIII: "If retail groups can fix prices at ... cost plus 10%," reasoned Mr. Percy, "they may logically raise the margin to 15%, 25% or even higher. The adoption of such a principle . . . will choke the free flow of commerce and shrink volume. . . . Sugar coating the price-fixing pill by the phrase 'to insure that labor costs shall be at least partially covered' does not alter the economic fact nor the bad social consequences...