Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pinchot Patching. Meanwhile, what was Governor Gifford Pinchot, outspoken foe of "the interests," doing? With a sly dig at his predecessor, John S. Fisher, said he: "I recognize the terrible condi- tions in the mining district. They were bad when I was in office before [1923-27], I arbitrated the anthracite strike and conditions were improved there. After I went out of office, conditions got worse. ... I have no power over the judges and the injunctions they grant [against picketing]. I have no power to prevent evictions [of miners from company-owned houses]. I have no power to stop...
Also, "Harvard requires and gets probably the highest standard of work of any large university in the country." Thus runs a folder, headed "Why Is Harvard Our Greatest University?" which accompanies a request that certain graduates dig for the Harvard fund. Who could help digging after being thus reminded of the glory which is Cambridge...
...dig a well first!" snapped Dry Mr. Ford...
...hurried voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming all the way with frequent rests (a dig at Playboy Richard Halliburton). The expedition had to take along so much impedimenta (such as grand pianos) because of testimonials to manufacturers that no room was left for navigating instruments. So when their airplane landed at the Pole they found it was the wrong one. They decided to say nothing about...
...ordinarily lay off. I've organized Unemployment relief and it's doing a darned good job. But . . . you don't know the law, that's all. How can we tax the rich? If I could, I would. . . . Show me a starving worker. I'd dig down into my own pocket to prevent it. Your Communist sheet, the Daily Worker, has been doing a lot of lying...