Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming up. On the prairies-save where dust and drought had ruined it-winter wheat was growing green and waving in the breeze. In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows. And in Washington, now that May was there, a crop of legislative dragons' teeth, the AAAmendments, were also coming...
...measures behind which he placed his union-but-not-a-party consisted mainly of bills bearing the names of his sponsors on the platform-Senator Nye's war-without-profit bill, Senator Thomas' bill to guarantee farmers their crop-production costs, Representative Lemke's farm mortgage bill, Representative Sweeney's bill "to drive the money changers from the temple." To these he added for good measure the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill and the Administration's utilities holding company bill. For each one, his audience applauded vigorously. Having progressed from Page 7 to Page...
Last week the "Walrus of Warsaw,' shrewd and sturdy old Marshal Josef Pilsudski, became the first of Europe's crop of post-War dictators to confer full and sweeping powers on his puppet...
...living Sphinx of the Netherlands, crop-haired, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrik Colijn has brought Her Majesty's Government unscathed through Communist brickbat assaults and the worst of Depression only to face last week the "Dutch Nazis." For stanch old Dr. Colijn it was exquisitely embarrassing to have to explain to his strong-minded Queen, Nazi-contemptuous Wilhelmina, how it has come about that one of the Premier's own sons is a "Dutch Nazi...
...Zetta Robart Wells, second wife of Grant Carveth Wells, dashing traveler and travel-writer; by Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, the traveler's first wife; for alienation of affections; in Bridgeport, Conn. Traveler Wells, testifying for wife No. 2, asserted that wife No. 1 beat him with a riding crop, wrote sarcastic letters about his amours, called the birth of their child an obscenity...